Dr. David Bovill: Future States, Regenerative Cities & Open Source Law
“The things I think we’re worst at is how we choose leaders, and then how we delegate power, and how a leader passes on power — these are probably the three biggest fuckups that we do as human beings.”
Today on the podcast I’m talking with Dr. David Bovill.
David is a former medical scientist, hacker, programmer, and artist, currently known as—and I’ll quote his brief bio from the Future State Congress website here—“Liquid democracy OG, Ethereum early adopter, and commons platforms like WikiWiki contributor.”
As you’ll hear, he’s been involved in quite a few projects, with the most interesting for us being his work at the Network State end of the Free Cities spectrum, which covers a lot of unfamiliar territory for me.
In this conversation, we talk about privacy, identity, grassroots action, digital utopias, intentional communities, nomadic communities, regenerative cities, and open-source law, to name just a few. I also learned a new word: ‘Anarchive,’ derived from the word ‘anarchy,’ of course. I like that one.
Although we share much in common, we also disagree on quite a few things, so hopefully, this will be an interesting discussion for you—as a fly on the wall.
Enjoy the conversation.