On this episode of the Philomath Series on Musings, Charles gives his thoughts and takeaways on A Prehistory of DAOs by Kei Kreutler, an article tracing the history of a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO), a conceptualized Web3 organizational form, from the political dialogue of the early web by John Barlow in Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace and David Ronfeldt in Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks (TIMN) in the 1990s, to the term's ever-changing meaning in Web3 since Vitalik Buterin's DAOs, DACs, DAs and More: An Incomplete Terminology Guide in 2014, to how the term may be a neologism for digital cooperativism (or cooperatives) in cyberspace, noting the connection between Platform Cooperativism and Web3 as both movements intend to upend the current platform economy and through the works of Jesse Walden's The Ownership Economy and Nathan Schneider's Exit to community, how DAOs and Cooperatives can learn from each other, how DAOs compare to gaming guilds from older massive multiplayer online (MMO) games such as EVE Online and where DAOs can learn from gaming guilds (contribution-tracking, dispute resolution, social currencies), why DAOs and gaming guilds may act under shadow economics, how DAOs can scale beyond the modern firm through cooperation based on Ronald Coase's The Nature of the Firm, why tools for DAOs (OrgTech) do not automatically create culture based onJaya Klara Brekke, Kate Beecroft, and Francesca Pick's The Dissensus Protocol: Governing Differences in Online Peer Communities, how DAOs will form multi-organizational heterarchical networks (similar to Meta-organizational form) of DAO-2-DAO interactions similar to the MONDRAGON Corporation based on Patrick Rawson's Ownership in Cryptonetworks, why DAOs should be recognized as an "emergent organizational form with legitimate political relevance," and lastly defining decentralized avatar organizations as DAOs that manage avatars (i.e., virtual people) that advocate for political platforms.
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