The chain of argument is longish, but nevertheless it feels well connected. Its an important new conversation, maybe critically important. The past of the open

The chain of argument is longish, but nevertheless it feels well connected. Its an important new conversation, maybe critically important. The past of the open source movement does not limit the role it will play in the future. What started as a personal computing freedom project is growing into the reference platform for keeping track of the state of the world. The transparency and trust afforded can simplify a lot of frictions plaguing a world competing over scarce resources where actors will try to hide their negative impacts etc. In essence the mode of distributing and operating code substitutes for armies of auditors, controllers and accountants etc. There are blockchainy echoes here, which points to a real challenge: this new conversation is still at a nascent stage. There arent yet systems in advanced stages that exemplify what this new future for open source looks like, but it doesnt take too long to find promising areas, look e.g into the energy related initiatives.