The book
Table of Contents
CoopchAIn explores in nine chapters the convergence of cooperativism, blockchain and artificial intelligence as the foundation of a new institutional architecture.
Chapter 1 — Cooperatives: Blockchain on Paper
Cooperativism as a network before code. The connection between cooperative principles and the foundations of blockchain. The twenty-first century dilemma: algorithms, relationships, and new meaning.
Chapter 2 — Blockchain Without Myths
The underlying problem: centralized trust. How it works and core concepts. Strengths, challenges and limits of blockchain technology.
Chapter 3 — Cooperativism Before Blockchain
A subversive history before Satoshi. Challenges of cooperativism. Strategies for a distributed future.
Chapter 4 — Cooperativism and Web3: Mutual Learning
What Web3 can learn from cooperativism and vice versa. Hybrid cases bridging cooperativism and Web3. Toward a new hybrid ecosystem.
Chapter 5 — The New Global Financial Infrastructure
Networks that transfer value without borders. CBDCs, stablecoins and interoperable tokens. What changes for banks, cooperatives, mutuals and regional financial institutions.
Chapter 6 — The Future of Work in the Age of AI
AI as an engine of growth and inequality. Economic and technological singularity. Democracy and social peace at stake.
Chapter 7 — The Sociocultural Singularity
The collapse of an explanatory model. Techno-economic and sociocultural singularity. A threshold without promises.
Chapter 8 — The Post-Singularity
AI: infrastructure, accumulation and scale. The invisible balance between opposing forces. Cooperativism 3.0: the institutional architecture of the new social contract.
Chapter 9 — CoopchAIn: A Post-Singularity Design
The living laboratory of the post-singularity world. CoopchAIn and the democratic state: a blueprint for augmented governance. Post-singularity: trauma or design.
The book also includes 5 technical appendices with use cases, bibliography, glossary and notes. The complete table of contents is available in the print and digital editions.