Art of Consensus

Information overload and misinformation are features, not bugs, of the Social Web. This book outlines a structural solution, by crystalizing the Internet into a Constructive Web composed of decentralized consensus software installations, instead of domineering centralized platforms.

Meldd is designed to enable rapid collective understanding requiring no emails, no messages, and no meetings. Decentralized blockchain facilitates basis for trust within teams/organizations, while encouraging extension of trust. Information is crystalized and evolve to reflect new information and perspectives, as falsehoods are easily Challenged on top clusters.

Specific application scenarios in enterprises, mass media, academia, and government are examined. Global Warming is the most complex consensus challenge for humanity, and multi-level consensus will decompose concrete plans into acceptable terms for every nation/organization involved, so that informed and binding collective commitments are possible.

All conflict derive from a failure of consensus. For two thousand years the Art of War has espoused the ideal of victory without combat. With technological progress, it is now finally possible to fill the void that Sun Tzu could imagine but not articulate, to give fulfillment to the individual, to empower organizations with agility, and to give humanity the ultimate prize, a path to survive and thrive as a species. This book is but a beginning, as the Art of Consensus could never be static, but what YOU would make of it.