for: futures - neo-Venetian crypto-networks, Global Chinese Commons, GCC, cosmolocal, coordiNation, somewheres, everywheres, nowheres, Global System One, Global System Two, Global System Three, contributory accounting, fourth sector, protocol cooperative, mutual coordination economics

summary

• I learned a number of new ideas from reading Michel's article. He gives a brief meta-history of our political-socio-economic system, using Peter Pogany's framework of Global System One, Two and Three and within this argues for why a marriage of blockchain systems and cosmolocal production systems could create a "fourth sector" for the transition to Global System Three.
• He cites evidence of existing trends already pointing in this direction, drawing from his research in P2P Foundation

Michel Bauwens provides a summary and theoretical analysis of

• the current stagnant, polarized and highly charged political environment, as well as
• a proposed third commons-based option that could mitigate the problem.

In this analysis, he introduces new terminology to describe the three categories of salient actors:

• somewheres
• nowheres
• everywheres