William Mougayar

The blockchain is custom-made for decentralizing trust and exchanging assets without central intermediaries. With the decentralization of trust, we will be able to exchange anything we own and challenge existing trusted authorities and custodians that typically held the keys to accessing our assets or verifying their authenticity.

Canadian Businessman

Paul Farmer

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

American Educator

Alexander Dubcek

In the economic sphere, the program demanded thorough decentralization and managerial independence of enterprises, as well as legalization of small-scale private enterprise, especially in the service sector.

Czechoslovakian Politician

Johann Most

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

German Revolutionary

Brock Yates

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

American Editor

Steve Hilton

A lot of the foundational philosophical approaches of tech leaders are actually all about decentralization of power.

British Businessman

Mario Monti

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere.

Italian Public Servant

Matteo Salvini

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

Italian Politician

Evgeny Morozov

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server.

Belarusian Writer

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

American Businessman

Often relates to governance, implying a focus or shift towards a single ruling body.

Political Context

May be perceived negatively, suggesting a loss of local autonomy or democracy.

Negative Connotation

Implies that decision making is in the hands of few, potentially reducing flexibility.

Control Aspect

In business, aims to improve efficiency by consolidating tasks and resources.

Efficiency Goal

Usually intended to save money by simplifying structures and processes.

Cost Reduction

Centralization in computing can lead to streamlined IT operations and support.

Technical Efficiency

Centralizing data or servers can create single points of failure, raising security concerns.

Risk Centralization

 which is the monetization of attention without any real other variables at work, any care for the people who are actually developing this content, the centralization of the power, the separation of those things. And I think however you feel about the use of advertising to kind of support stuff,

The nightmare videos of...

 that show the potential to be very lightweight, very inexpensive, very efficient, and we'd be able to actually provide all of our energy needs in this renewable way. Nano-engineered fuel cells could provide the energy where it's needed. That's a key trend, which is decentralization,

The accelerating power...

 Networks really embody notions of decentralization, of interconnectedness, of interdependence. And this new way of thinking is critical for us to solve many of the complex problems we are facing nowadays, from decoding the human brain, to understanding the vast universe out there.

A Visual History of...

 about the motherhood sense here knowledge and intelligence is power and as it becomes more distributed there's a concomitant distribution and decentralization and disaggregation of power that's underway in the world today the open world is bringing freedom now

Four principles for the...

 Once only is a very powerful rule, as it defines the whole structure of the data collection in a country, what information is collected and who is responsible for maintaining it, making sure we avoid centralization of data, duplication of data,

What a digital...

 So connection in the metaverse means interoperability. A coherent system of legal and technical standards for true decentralization. NFTs and blockchain can provide the technical tools, but they will never work without the legal counterpart.

How to Stop the...

 terribly well so how did they do that I think it's because they entrenched democracy in a radical decentralization that actually mirrors what what has been with the pre-colonial structure which was of separates Ultimates and kingdoms

Is invisibility the...

 Knowledge and intelligence is power, and as it becomes more distributed, there's a concomitant distribution and decentralization and disaggregation of power that's underway in the world today. The open world is bringing freedom.

Don Tapscott: Four...

 My other motivation to create this network was worry. I fear that the future of our internet is out of our control. The increasing centralization and the proposed laws are threatening our freedom of speech

The case for a...

 the confederacy principle, which is characterized by a great deal of devolution of authority, decentralization of power. Now, this is what I have described to you.