This Chapter examines the future of decentralization. While humans who were raised in a centralized world by default turn to centralized solutions for societal problems, decentralized approaches are more effective for global problems. Decentralized networks encourage interoperability through...

Chapter 1 of the book explores the historical foundations of decentralized structures, starting with early hominids through Imperial China and the American Revolution. The primary goal of the chapter is to witness the central-decentral dichotomy in its evolutionary context to understand more...

Decentralization cannot evolve in a vacuum. As decentralized technology becomes increasingly available, its application, adaptation, and evolution depend on society’s acceptance and use of the technology. While improved decentralized incentive designs can accelerate adoption, design alone will...

The article shows that the technological precursors of decentralization require a reexamination of technological infrastructure for decentralized systems. Highlighting the past and present events in technology development that helped usher in the age of decentralization, the article examines the...

This article discusses the historical most relevant types of decentralization that helped usher in the age of decentralization. Key components of decentralization that are discussed herein include: decentralization of science, technological decentralization, organizational decentralization,...