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Edge City Roadmap

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Thank you, Venkatesh Rao, Vitalik Buterin, Toby Shorin, Justin Mares, and Ryan Pripstein for giving their thoughts on earlier versions of this essay. ‍ Tech is moving fast; society isn’t. The systems that shape our time—institutions, norms, governance structures—were made for a prior world. They are not able to meet the opportunities and challenges of the current moment. There are profound technological breakthroughs on the horizon, and their implications need to be worked out. ‍ What if we saw this moment as an opportunity to build something better, leveraging new advancements to prototype new ways of living and connecting in global communities? ‍ This is the challenge we’re embracing at Edge City. Over the past year, we’ve hosted monthlong popup villages where thousands of people—builders, thinkers, creatives, and more—lived together to test new ways of organizing communities and collaborating on emerging ideas. Across frontier tech, health & longevity, education systems, governance,

Contents Building a network city Thank you, Venkatesh Rao, Vitalik Buterin, Toby Shorin, Justin Mares, and Ryan Pripstein for giving their thoughts on earlier versions of this essay. ‍ Tech is moving fast; society isn’t. The systems that shape our time—institutions, norms, governance structures—were made for a prior world. They are not able to meet the opportunities and challenges of the current moment. There are profound technological breakthroughs on the horizon, and their implications need to be worked out. ‍ What if we saw this moment as an opportunity to build something better,…

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