DAOs as cities

Another addition to the DAO notes, alongside daos-are-digital-organisms. It seems there are tons of lenses to use to view DAOs, which also makes sense - the-eight-metaphors-of-organization.

Anyway, Chase Chapman, in Digital Cities asserts:

the next generation of cities won’t be built with wood or bricks or steel. This time around, cities will be built with code.

and also says:

People often talk of the DAO landscape as an ecology. We believe the landscape is actually more like a city of cities – a Metropolis of interconnected and interdependent organizations.

I have mixed feelings on this. I like the metaphor of daos-are-digital-organisms, because it really, and I mean really embraces the complexity inherent in autopoietic life. Organizations can be beautiful, and evolving and responsive. The metaphor of city of cities gives the whole thing a mechanistic spin. A bit too much of one for my taste.