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# Design to Distribute: Centralization to Commons

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### Technological Paradigm Shift to Distributed Systems

History of information technologies, associated with networks, peer-peer , and Google search engine, in parallel with growth of the internet and big data for interoperable, intelligent systems.&#x20;

### Midjourney Image Prompt

*vintage atlas watercolor of a living tapestry lifting off a circular loom and curling into a luminous torus, warp threads drawn as elegant compass arcs and rule lines (symbolic governance), weft threads as fluid river-lines and mycelial fibers (diverse life energy), parallax layers and atmospheric depth, tiny gold flecks glowing at distributed crossings like community hubs, faint cartographic grid ghosted beneath, serene and wordless*

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