# Decentralized technology

`kaal:entity:decentralized-technology`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 3 claims that carry the concept tag `decentralized-technology`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

3 claims across 3 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3782191-015](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782191-015) [condition/argued] -- Technology-driven decentralized systems depend on existing infrastructure and follow existing natural network patterns, just as predator populations could not evolve without prey.
  > Technology-driven decentralized systems depend on an ex- isting infrastructure.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Preface to (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782191
- [3808867-019](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808867-019) [mechanism/argued] -- 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.
  > Unlike their centralized predecessors, decentralized technologies, for the first time in history, enable improved incentive designs that help overcome the insufficiencies in voting outcomes of representative democracies.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How Decentralized Systems Can Upgrade AI (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808867
- [3808873-003](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-003) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Legacy businesses actively neutralize decentralized competition by acquiring little known companies that hold highly competitive decentralized technologies, as Microsoft's acquisition of Skype illustrates.
  > In their attempts to neutralize their decentralized competitor businesses, legacy businesses are acquiring little-known companies with highly competitive decentralized technologies.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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