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Do human designed systems always end up centralized? | by Alex Meyer | Maximum Tinkering | Medium

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Something that I’ve been thinking about recently is the tussle between decentralized organizations, where there is no clear authority but rather every participant is on their own, and centralized organizations, where there is a clear authority in charge. And the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me that human created systems almost always end up centralized. Decentralization is the more natural organization structure. If you look at nature, you’ll see what I mean. Evolution shows that everything we see in the world was created without a central authority[1]. The plants and animals all around us came to be not by centralized planning but instead through the mere act of each living thing being interested in its own survival and replication. But when it comes to humans, I think we prefer centralization, at least in the way we design things. If you look at the history of human organization, like governments or businesses, a pattern begins to emerge. Our systems start decentral

Do human designed systems always end up centralized? Alex Meyer 5 min read · Sep 13, 2018 -- Listen Share Something that I’ve been thinking about recently is the tussle between decentralized organizations, where there is no clear authority but rather every participant is on their own, and centralized organizations, where there is a clear authority in charge. And the more I thought about it, the more it seemed to me that human created systems almost always end up centralized. Decentralization is the more natural organization structure. If you look at nature, you’ll see what I mean. Evolution sh

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