More-Than-Human Futures for Decolonised Digital Economies: Current Skepticism, Implementations and Prospects for the Post-Anthropocene Future
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Existing literature predominantly focuses on the technical prospects of blockchain, particularly the possibility of digital economies built from the bottom up and self-governing. However, pressing concerns remain about the sustainability of blockchain applications. Thus, a decolonised, (meaning self-governance) critical transdisciplinary and systemic review of the current implementation of blockchain and how sustainable and supporting it would be in the future is required. The study considers the potential of its adoption and emerging development of applications focusing on social justice and civic good, including the multi-species circular economy project, ‘COLife: More-Than-Human Community Codesign Century,’ exploring a more-than-human value communication agenda. This review sourced articles from Clarivate and Scopus to investigate the current implementation of blockchain application areas. The review suggests a transition towards the post-Anthropocene, where blockchain presents opportunities for all beings (humans, other species, artificial intelligence, robots) to co-live and co-perform, offering sustainable alternatives to the existing unsustainable extractive and exploitative power dynamic that humans typically exert over other species and technology. For example, pollinators should be paid for their pollinations and for that they could buy a meadow. Our transdisciplinary and systemic critical review shows that some studies denigrate the merits of blockchain applications, mainly because they were written from a reductionist perspective. Our strength lies in boundary critique implementation. We argue the reductionist reviews are inconclusive, while some outcomes were subjective to practical verification and assumption validation. However, they do not consider the complexity of today’s world. Lastly, we present the benefits of the drivers for future implementation, showing it outweigh the projected drawbacks and future vision of our COLife project with blockchain.Description
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Discover Sustainability, ISSN: 2662-9984 (Print); 2662-9984 (Online), Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 5(1), 404-. doi: 10.1007/s43621-024-00574-y
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