DISTRIBUTED AUTONOMOUS ENTERPRISES We now suggest you buckle up in your Star Trek captain’s seat for a moment. Imagine BOB 9000—a set of autonomous agents that cooperate in a complex blockchain-based ecosystem according to a mission statement and rules. Together they create a suite of services that they sell to humans or organizations. Humans animate the agents, endowing them with computing power and capital to go about their work. They buy the services they need, hire people or robots, acquire partner resources such as manufacturing capability and branding and marketing expertise, and adapt
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