Quotes About Decentralization

The anarchist conclusion is that every kind of human activity should begin from what from what is local and immediate, should link in a network with no centre and no directing agency, hiving off new cells as the original grows.

We decentralise permissions over the use of our communications.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

Democracy cannot be a plaything for the capital cities. It has to infiltrate every nook and cranny in the country, including the village.

One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.

America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.

The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.

Bitcoin is open-source, global, and requires no permission from anybody, so thousands of entrepreneurs are gravitating in and building their vision.

I don't think education is about centralized instruction anymore; rather, it is the process [of] establishing oneself as a node in a broad network of distributed creativity.

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks.

Today Ethereum is the second-longest and fastest-growing public blockchain. The

en nube con una serie de aplicaciones que permiten a los usuarios almacenar información con seguridad, privacidad y a precios muy bajos. Ninguna autoridad central tiene acceso a la contraseña encriptada del usuario. El servicio elimina los altos costes de los servicios de almacenamiento centralizados; es rapidísimo y paga a los usuarios por alquilar el espacio de disco que les sobra. Es como un Airbnb de la memoria libre de nuestros ordenadores.

I would get rid of the Department of Education. I would get rid of the state departments of education and let the local people control the schools.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

By the late 1940s, then, city planners based their work on several key assumptions. Decentralization was the source of urban disruption and decay. They would have to slow or reverse the process while the remainder of the city, especially the central business district, was rebuilt. Freeway construction, at whatever scale, was the play a role in the redevelopment and recentralizing process.

First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don't distribute your objects!

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

In an industry experiencing as thorough a state of flux and technological revolution as the media are, the rise and relevance of all manner of small, decentralized participants are undeniable, but the traditional players may yet have the last word.45 The growing popularity of mobile devices, for example, has led not only to a spike in news consumption but also to a flight to quality, as consumers prefer apps and home pages of established news organizations with a reputation for objectivity.46

An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.

Ideology is the glue that holds decentralized organizations together.

Nevins explained that the traits of a decentralized society-flexibility, shared power, ambiguity-made the Apaches immune to attacks that would have destroyed a centralized society.

Not only did the Apaches survive the Spanish attacks, but amazingly, the attacks served to make them even stronger. When the Spanish attacked them, the Apaches became even more decentralized and even more difficult to conquer. When the Spanish destroyed their villages, the Apaches might have surrendered if the villages had been crucial to their society. But they weren't. Instead, the Apaches abandoned their old houses and became nomads. (Try to catch us now.)

This is the first major principle of decentralization: when attacked, a decentralized organization tends to become even more open and decentralized.

Drucker argued that this decentralization was key to the success of GM.