At its most detailed level this theory of Evolution Capitalism works up from the laws of physics and chemistry, the building blocks of life, to the evolutionary edict that results from these laws – survival of the fittest. Viewed from the perspective of evolution, the roots and the potential future of capitalism come into focus.

Capitalism is a self-organizing system. It is an evolutionary adaptation developed over thousands of years to increase our chances of survival – it is a force of nature. Capitalism clearly suffers from some significant shortcomings, but the human orchestrated institutions, i.e., government bureaucracy, with which we attempt to solve its limitations, are simply outmatched. We have been trying to deflect a class 5 hurricane with an electric fan and the utter failure of this approach is writ large across our planet – abject poverty and environmental degradation among an abundance of material wealth.

Our economic system seems to be stuck in the evolutionary process. We have resigned ourselves to our fate, concluding that the best we can do is fine tune the balance of the free market and government bureaucracy. To continue with the analogy, we’re trying to develop bigger, stronger and more efficient electric fans. However, the idea that capitalism is the end of the road for the evolution of human economic systems makes as much sense as assuming that human beings have stopped evolving. That there will be a next stage in the evolution of capitalism is not only possible, but highly probable (assuming we don’t go extinct first)…you can read the rest at http://www.HyperCapitalism.org.

Openness can lead to accountability so I think it is really important to push for openness.

And yes if we got ALL of the people on board the technology would be easy. But for now these guys are AWESOME in the technology they are creating. Do follow them and their projects.

http://www.sunlightlabs.com/