# Tenets for long term

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2022/01/24/tenets-for-long-term/
- Published: 2022-01-24T17:27:23+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

### The future is decentralized.

Central authority will never be as good as self directing autonomous systems that
can be remotely adjusted. The decentralized pattern will always win, but we’ll constantly
have the centralisation bubble to burst. The central – local boom bust play is a
feature of technology.

But the future, at large, is decentralized. Autonomous AI, for the internet of things,
for incoming robots, for small apps that do local ML and AI tasks, they’re alredy
here. And the same is true for communication. Small focused networks are the future.
Even Facebook knows it. The goal is to be the one that organizes the decentralized
system, not to centralize.

To prepare for the future aim at creating small, self sustaining, autonomous networks.

### Sharing is unbeatable.

Anything that produces outstanding content is not fulfilling anything if the thing
results in niche distribution. And nothing in the land of planned distribution can
possible beat the virality enabled by sharing. Sharing is an immitation of natural
processes from viruses to gene transmission in reproduction. Can’t beat that because
it is the simplest most efficient thing. That is what we learn from nature.

Sharing will empower the small networks to express on their surface the hits, the
success stories, their identification calls, their signals to other small networks,
all without the need for coordination. Any system that does not have good sharing
mechanisms eventually falls into irrelevance, which in terms of communication is
death.

### Capture is the cornerstone.

Captured audiences are the decenralized exclusive option to handle distribution.
If you can’t notify you can’t attract. Capture is the means in which the small sharing
networks can change their close by environment to signal their output. These signals
are the picked up. Again a natural system which is the simples most efficient thing
that works.

Without capture it’s all a void. Without the built in ability to signal interest
and the ability to signal potential nothing exists.

### Monetization is survival.

This is beyond biology. It’s thermodynamics. A small sharing network with a captured
signal pool can only survive if it does not get more output than inout. Monetisation
is not about getting paid exclusively. It is also about attracting contributions,
participation, engagement, syndication, derrivative work and so on.

The systems need to have native support for monetisation variants to enable the 
networks they build to be long lasting, and not instantly decomposing attempts.