I'd heard about "autonomous corporations" before, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole concept. Anyway, [url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22730384-100-blockchain-startups-... saw this article in "New Scientist" (behind a registration wall, sorry), and it sorta reminds me of how hypercorps operate in EP[/url].
I still don't really get it! I mean, I get it on a surface level, but... I feel like I'm missing something, and unfortunately I can't really articulate how I don't understand :(
I think part of the problem is that I'm not sure how this whole "capitalism" thing goes about, much less its EP/scifi descendant of hypercapitalism.
This was also a feature in [url=http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelera..."Accelerando" by Charlie Stross[/url]:
"The president of agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.AB5 is agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.201. The secretary is agalmic.holdings.root.184.D5, and the chair is agalmic.holdings.root.184.E8.FF. All the shares are owned by those companies in equal measure, and I can tell you that their regulations are written in Python."
"As of three hours ago," Manfred says quietly, "I sold a controlling interest in agalmic.holdings.root.1.1.1 to Athene Accelerants BV, a venture capital outfit from Maastricht. One dot one dot one is the root node of the central planning tree. Athene aren't your usual VC, they're accelerants – they take explosive business plans and detonate them."
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