You had centralized energy production.

But we've centralized these bureaucracies.

Production was centralized in assembly plants.

Then, with industrialization, everything started to become centralized.

Dopamine system, the wanting system, is much more centralized.

They did so through a centralized headquarters out of illinois.

Mobile platforms are more closed and more centralized than we've seen in decades.

If you want to get off those centralized structures, you can do it.

There has been this centralized event in a place called Lake Chenghai, China.

That's a key trend, which is decentralization, moving from centralized nuclear power plants and

They could be market based, or non market based they could be decentralized, or centralized.

As individuals we're losing the ability to act on the web without permission from large, centralized gatekeepers.

If you want to get off those centralized structures, you can do it. You can have that.

And in some ways, it's sort of back to the kind of old idea of centralized computing.

All of this, we need to communicate directly with each other instead of through centralized structures like Facebook or Gmail.

All of this, we need to communicate directly with each other instead of through centralized structures like Facebook or Gmail.

Chinese restaurants have done largely the same thing, I would argue, with the menu and the decor, even the restaurant name, but without a centralized headquarters.

So in a way the environment becomes a little bit more intelligent but not with like a centralized intelligence but like smaller units talking to each other.

The Hard Path centralized production of energy with continuous consumption and limitless growth or the Soft Path local production of energy, locally owned with resilient and sustainable communities.

For example, our over centralized grid is very vulnerable to cascading and potentially economy shattering blackouts caused by bad space weather or other natural disasters or a terrorist attack.

The first one belongs to those ethnic societies who believe that the state was necessarily tyrannous, so they didn't want to have anything to do with any centralized authority.

I mean, the power of the city we talked about cities as being centralized in space, but what makes them so strong most of the time is they're decentralized in function.

But it didn't change the Chinese political system, and also the Chinese central government utilized this centralized server structure to strengthen its power to counter the local government and the different factions.

Eisner the man who plotted the homicide rates that you failed to see in the earlier slide argued that the timing of the decline of homicide in Europe coincided with the rise of centralized states.

But the way that our institutions are designed, in our rather 18th century, centralized model, is to channel the flow of values through voting, once every four years, once every two years, at best, once a year.

And whatever we replace it with is going to cost about the same, about six trillion dollars at present value whether we buy more of what we've got or new nuclear and so called clean coal, or renewables that are more or less centralized.

In the 1980 s and early 1990 s, centralized wage setting agreements were dissolved and the Swedish government cut personal and corporate tax rates. The level of entrepreneurial activity in the country as a whole doubled as a result, but the response was very different from one municipality to another.

Now another property of Bitcoin worth mentioning is that it's decentralized there's no bank centralized entity that can really control what's happening in the Bitcoin ecosystem, it's all done in this kind of ad hoc fashion amp amp what that means is that, when you do a transaction, when Alice transacts with Bob over the internet, that transaction is ??? with third party.