I have not read Softwar. It is no longer available on Amazon. I see it is supposed to provide ‘. . . an argument for why emerging proof-of-work technologies (namely Bitcoin) will have a dramatic impact on how humans organize, cooperate, and compete on a global scale by empowering populations to project physical power in, from, and through cyberspace.’ I am partial to this position. Does the author make a projections about that empowered populations and how these new human organizations might be successful? It seem clear to me that human action is driven by intelligence and intent, but in the theory of complex adaptive systems, 'the adaptation' is not driven by intelligence or intent.