In its place, decentralized systems of advanced, clean-energy production and digital power distribution are already starting to rise, Rifkin suggests, and they will reorder not just the way we turn on our lights, but how whole economies -- indeed, whole societies -- operate.
Businessmen give America its highest ranking, 10th place, for decentralized planning, which means they think that state and local governments control most important decisions pertaining to their businesses, not the federal government.
What proof do we have that this is taking place in decentralized countries?
As the blogosphere has evolved, "conversations" are taking place in a decentralized and distributed manner over literally millions of blogs and other websites (whereas in web 1.0 conversations were generally centralized on a site, such as a newsgroup).
However, computing may also take place in distributed and decentralized environments.
Plainville's music is decentralized, band-wise, and all over the place category-wise, imagining new kinds of country and folk and pop.
With the Paris framework in place, momentum for bottom-up, decentralized market-based policies will only increase -- and at the core of such systems are transparency and integrity.
Money from swindles in Iraq and from foreign patrons in places like Saudi Arabia allows a disparate, decentralized collection of insurgent cells to hire recruits and pay for large-scale attacks.
Decentralized hydrogen production facilities are likely to be placed at fuel stations.
A transfer matching algorithm is in place to help figure out trades on decentralized exchanges, which are more complicated to track.
