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When I think about his Accelerando novel and how he describes the Vile Offspring as the descendants of mankind who ultimately inherit the Solar System, I someti
by dragonbonheur 11y ago
When I think about his Accelerando novel and how he describes the Vile Offspring as the descendants of mankind who ultimately inherit the Solar System, I sometimes wonder if Excel Spreadsheets describing every aspect of a Corporation could in a way become minimally self-aware and compete for resources with each other.
If there were automated ways to create a corporation and give it legal personhood, along with an offshore bank account, the possibility of the emergence of self-sustaining autonomous corporations may become more of a certainty.
In fact, most of the pieces are available: lots of servers offer some free bandwidth and some free hosting space, bitcoin wallets can be opened, ready to receive donations from people all over the world... There just needs to be a software engine that can create content people want in an autonomous way and here come the Vile Offspring.
- pipermerriam 11y ago> If there were automated ways to create a corporation and give it legal personhood, along with an offshore bank account, the possibility of the emergence of self-sustaining autonomous corporations may become more of a certainty. Take a look at the [DAO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_autonomous_organ...) concept. These are currently being built and deployed on the Ethereum platform. Sounds like a real world version of what you are theorizing.
- dragonbonheur 11y agoThanks for the link. The Wetube project looks promising. Just placing a server at the disposal of that decentralized corporation, one becomes a worker for that corporation. Very interesting.