Decentralization and privacy are inevitable — in tech and in government.
Good tech principles will become good governance principles, whether governments want them to or not.
Decentralization and encryption/privacy are good principles for digital technology.
They’re also pretty good principles for effective, fair, and just government.
Those two principles are becoming more widespread within digital technology, and trend will only accelerate as more of our lives, interactions, transactions, and work move into the digital realm.
This will have inevitable, positive effects on political liberty and human flourishing.
The positive effects result from the fact that digital decentralization and encryption make it harder for the government to employ the tools it has to enable further centralization and to breach our privacy.
Centralized, large, and intrusive states require our lives — our communications, interactions, and economic transactions — to be legible. They have to know what we’re doing, when we’re doing it, and what resources we’re acquiring and using to facilitate it.
“Require” here should be read in two ways.
