I think it's a commentary on idealogues in general. And there is no shortage of them in blockchain land. Treating blockchain as a tool while understanding it's risks and benefit - No problem. Treating blockchain (or any other technology) as an ideology that will solve all problems - Problem.

The reductio ad absurdum argument is to point to the potential horrors of a society ruled by technology rules, instead of human governance.

++1 to comment on perfect scale. The perfect IS the enemy of the good - especially in standards work where competing interests, agendas, personalities and views almost certainly suggests that any standard that gets through the process will be a compromise and, if you're lucky, a compromise that makes everyone equally unhappy with the compromises that they made;-)



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On 23 September 2016 at 09:28, Eve Maler <eve.maler@forgerock.com> wrote:
Not sure why Gosplan is such a great metaphor for individual autonomy in a context of distrust. :-) Does this entire topic have to be such a constantly tangled web of tensions and oxymorons? I keep wondering if the goal of perfect scale is the enemy of the good. I've seen too many instances of insistence on a perfect future state compromising the ability to achieve incremental progress (not even referring to geopolitical topics here, just standards work).

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On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:09 PM, John Wunderlich <john@wunderlich.ca> wrote:
http://bb9.berlinbiennale.de/blockchain-as-gosplan-2-0/



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