Let's be contrarian. The Printing press centralized society. It was a prerequisite for the rise of the nation-state.
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Claim: Technology that lowers communication overhead or travel time always centralizes on net.
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I love this. What else causes net centralization? Also, what causes net decentralization (other than the opposite of these two factors)?
Also paging @kevinakwok who thinks a lot about these things.
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One of my favorite examples of a centralizer is a long-distance weapon http://www.deathfromadistance.com/content/Bingham_Evanth_(2000)_9,_248-257.pdf …pic.twitter.com/vx4sTZKoBy
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Yeah this is kinda true. It complicated. I am not convinced we have a great measurement for net centralization yet. Changing the structure has a lot of centralizing and decentralizing impacts at different scopes. And we aren't yet great and comparing different scopes into net
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That said by the frame you're using it certainly is true. The particular mechanism it works by is a massive get fragmentation followed by a reconvergence. I actually don't think it's apriori that it leads to further centralization though it does in majority of cases. The way to
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Anything that increases interjuridictional externalities or reduces the costs of enforcing larger scale rules leads, on average, to more centralization. Here's a model of this: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3199452 …
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Interesting, I'd argue that filter bubbles are a form of decentralisation...
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