glossary

network society neologisms

Lots of words and concepts, changing all the time and some of them don't even have a static meaning at all.

Words

• Charter city - An autonomous urban area authorized to establish its own governance framework and implement independent policies
• Digital Nomad: someone who travels while working remotely (usually from their laptop).
• Dunbar Number - The hypothesized number of people one person can have meaningful relationships with, around 150 people.
• Ecovillage - A purpose-built community focused on environmental and social sustainability across cultural, economic, and ecological dimensions
• Intentional community - A voluntary collective of people choosing to cohabitate and share resources based on mutual values.
• Network-society - A broad term for any group within the entire ecosystem (commercial or grassroots) of decentralized, autonomous communities connected digitally and evolving through voluntary governance experiments.
• Network state - A digitally-united group that seeks diplomatic recognition, enabled by shared values and coordinated action and may include property.
• Pop up village - A temporary gathering of Dunbar-sized groups of people exploring alternative lifestyles through collaborative living, working and coordinating.
• Seasteading - Building permanent floating settlements in international waters beyond national jurisdictions.
• Slowmad: Like a digital nomad but who spends longer periods in each location.
• Special economic zone (SEZ) - A explicitly designated area operating under different regulations than its host country and with host country support.
• Startup city - A charter city combining residential and industrial development with the hope of creating better cities. Usually with an emphasis on technology, profit motive/investors and silicon valley ethos.
• Startup society - A new community testing novel approaches to legal, physical, social or digital infrastructure, usually with profit motive/investors and silicon valley ethos.
• Zuzalien: Zuzalu or adjacent community participant.

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• Dunbar Number — proposed limit to number of close relationships