Maybe It’s Time to Decentralize

Bigger isn’t necessarily better when it comes to politics and technology

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Robin Dunbar first noticed it in the grooming patterns of primates.

In the 1990s, Dunbar, a British anthropologist, was trying to understand primate grooming behavior — why did these animals spend so much of their time on the practice, and how did they choose whom…