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   "text": "Technology-driven decentralized systems depend on existing infrastructure and follow existing natural network patterns, just as predator populations could not evolve without prey.",
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   "text": "Unlike their centralized predecessors, decentralized technologies enable, for the first time in history, improved incentive designs that help overcome the insufficiencies in the voting outcomes of representative democracies.",
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   "text": "Legacy businesses actively neutralize decentralized competition by acquiring little known companies that hold highly competitive decentralized technologies, as Microsoft's acquisition of Skype illustrates.",
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