Posit: Society has created/invented a handful of unique constructs that tie the social fabric of local and global communities together, namely religion, political ideology, and money. https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1391325769394122752

These Hararian constructs produce *physical* artifacts that are largely subjective manifestations of the construct - the Judeo-Christian Bible for religion, the Declaration of Independence for politics, and a twenty-dollar bill for money.

But what happens when these physical artifacts, become digitally enabled and more importantly, *programmable*?

Cryptocurrency is the first example of making a fundamental construct of society programmable: money.

Are religion and politics next?

Are there examples of a societal construct that experienced a sea change after they became programmable?

. @balajis raised a good point in our chat that media has become programmable and applying copyleft to future forms of media will reshape the landscape. I wholeheartedly agree.

We also discussed how names are now programmable via ENS (Ethereum Name Service). I see this as an important implementation detail for a larger construct: identity.

Ask yourself this question: is more than 50% of your time every day spent looking at a screen?

If you answered "yes" then your online identity is more your identity than you may think.

VR, crypto, and a "Ready Player 1" future imply the potential for multiple identities and ultimately, multiple names.

And this can be accomplished programmatically with a simple JavaScript application.

For example, you can programmatically create/edit/delete crypto wallets. In web 3.0, wallets *are* your online identity.

What's the 2nd order effect of this? Well for one, your SaaS business can no longer rely on metrics like DAU and MAU as measured by *unique wallets*.

Sure, today you can have multiple Twitter or Gmail accounts, but creating them programmatically as a *feature* of the service is prohibited.

Crypto completely upends this notion and instead embraces it - some folks will create dozens of wallets for free token airdrops - they are economically incentivized to do so.

What about politics?

Are DAOs the first attempt at making political ideology programmable?

There are challenges with DAOs, like every other form of governance, but ideology and the rules of an organization now become an arbitrage opportunity.

What are the effects of this?

Are there any other examples of societal constructs that have radically changed since they became programmable?