Connected Thinking: On History, Technology, and the Art of Seeing What's Coming. Featuring Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation Founder

What if the chaos around us isn't collapse, but transformation?

Michel Bauwens has spent decades mapping the edges of change. From peer-to-peer networks to the commons, from medieval guilds to distributed autonomous organizations, he's been tracking something most people miss: the seeds of a new civilization, already growing underneath the noise.

In this conversation, we explore how the internet didn't just connect computers - it created an entirely new plane of human organization. One where people coordinate across the planet without hierarchies, intermediaries, or anyone giving orders.

They call it cosmolocalism. What is heavy stays local. What can be shared, travels everywhere.

But this isn't just theory. It's a lens. A way of reading history that tells you exactly where you are, and what's worth building right now.

Are you post-seasonal, clinging to a logic whose time has passed? Seasonal, playing the current moment well? Or pre-seasonal, working on the seeds that will matter when the time is ripe?

The caterpillar, Michel reminds us, already carries the DNA of the butterfly.

This is Connected Thinking. Join us.

Article published on Orchestrate all the Things: https://linkeddataorchestration.com/2026/02/25/connected-thinking-on-history-technology-and-the-art-of-seeing-whats-coming/