The New Normal. Medium Design

n one side of the screen, stories about sociotechnical organizations — be they railroads, hydroelectric networks or blockchains — may be about decentralization and freedom. But the real disposition of the organization may be concentrating power and authority with a universal ambition.

The player “knows how” to respond to a string of changing conditions over time with an organ of interplay.

Designing that protocol, and redesigning it as necessary, is medium design.