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Why are we social media buddies? I don't know..


The essence of all of humanity's innovation and invention was and still is about the reduction of the time it takes to do anything, and rendering the distance between fellow humans irrelevant.  Decentralisation is thus the most unannounced intent of all of man's quest to being freed from the risks of a centre controlled by a few. As contests to be in control of the centre intensity so will innovation to establish the credibility of the periphery grow. In a world that is perpetually looking like is becoming a single market, currencies that facilitate the interaction of value and cost of relationships will become nodes of trust beyond the magic of eye contact and handshake. 

The trust algorithms embedded in the digital accuracy of blockchain based currencies facilitating human interaction and transaction are fast becoming templates upon which the government of all human co-existence activities occur. With the world having grown into a highly distributed place that is increasingly reducing the need to be at certain places, the pressure to create centres that are a shared locus out of which the periphery can re-centre at its decentralised nodes without disconnecting from the source, is mounting.


The safe record keeping prowess and trust protocols of blockchain technologies as a transacting platform and interaction currency driving mechanism might require leapfrogging leadership mindsets, from us.  The almost digital autonomous nature of the gadgets we use to connect and disconnect with each other have not only reduced our accountability to each other but increased the appetite to want to infringe into our very autonomy.


As the exponential value of each of us grows, and our capacity to multiply the reach of our views and ideation beyond the gadgets we are texting into, so is the portended future of the chart group we have become. It will thus be the extent of our collaboration that will aggregate our knowledge, wisdom , experience, and expertise towards the collective good of those in the periphery of advantage.


The growing calls for chat groups to extract more than just social returns out of the screen time invested are what we should now start to interrogate. As the cyberspace is growing into a 'free space' and an 'information portal' as well as a space to self organise into nodes of a common network of highly networked individuals, we have an opportunity to increase our social media efficiency for societal impact. 


The need therefore to catapult ourselves into a black box of idea innovation and implementation mandarins has arrived. The view of the world beyond our gadgets as a stateless ideas junk folder should rather be replaced by the attitude to become the agency of the destiny we want. Omniscient as we might have thus far projected ourselves, we are still a ledger of regimented individuals whose strength is still dangerously the selfishness we have come together to dismantle.


With sufficient co-ordination, we can redefine the country's land-, economy-, financial-, and idea-scapes. If we can isolate just three days to deal with how we should co-ordinate ourselves, we will be a 'block' that 'chains' itself onto something with better returns on screen time invested.


🤷🏽‍♂️A ndzo tipfukela ndzi ti hleketela

🤷🏽‍♂️Avuxeni maxaka 


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