About this event
We are entering a time where Industrial age assumptions no longer apply. Ideas like — concentrating power for top down control, optimizing for efficiency at any cost or the need to centralize and urbanize populations are less relevant than ever before. It’s becoming clear that centralized systems are much more vulnerable to shock and disruption than decentralized, distributed systems.
Could radical decentralization be the answer to staying resilient in an ever-changing world?
Decentralizing power or infrastructure may sound familiar; but what about decentralizing time, design, value flows or populations? This talk explores the value proposition of resisting centralizing forces in our projects and society.
Join Nathaniel Calhoun for our next Experts On Air webcast as he explores the power of decentralization in today’s world.
With the information in this webcast, you will:
Explore how exponential technologies can facilitate the decentralization of power, population, ownership, design, time and value flows.
Understand where exponential technologies are disrupting the value proposition of the city, and how urbanization might actually peak and decline in the future
Explore the potential of decentralization and de-risking ownership through cooperatives
Imagine the possibilities of businesses that are built to last a limited amount of time, instead of attempting to outlive changing trends.
About Nathaniel Calhoun
In his current role, as the Managing Director of SU’s Global Solutions Program, Nathaniel Calhoun helps guide Singularity University’s approach to changemaking and impact. He’s also the Vice Chair of Global Grand Challenge Faculty. Nathaniel closely tracks innovations in governance, decentralized and cooperative business models as well as the highly disruptive trend of platform cooperatives and commons generation.
He helps business and government to understand how to leverage and prepare for the growth of these and related trends.
In his work outside of SU, Nathaniel creates and implements digital technologies at a global scale to help alleviate poverty and to drive business literacy and access to digital and financial services in Sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. He does this work through CODE Innovation, a consulting company he founded in 2007 to help development work organizations like UNICEF and DfID use web and mobile technologies more effectively in their training and growth.
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