2026-07-09 –, Linden Theater
Why money (and current cryptos) stay the most centralizing technology, and how free currencies redesign value for a distributed world.
Have you played Monopoly? Picture the fairest possible start: equal odds for all, plus a basic income each round. Who would refuse such a world? Yet money keeps draining toward a few hands. Not through greed, through the rules themselves. The game's own inventor built it in 1904 to prove exactly this, because concentration of money manufactures concentration of power. Centralized order depends on that drift.
Now you arrive at dWeb, dreaming of a distributed world. Bad news: money, the very tool many of you trust to get there, works as the most toxic instrument you could pick. It quietly rebuilds the pyramid you came to dismantle.
So what remains? A different way of thinking, and a full redesign of value itself. Welcome to the deep economy and its free currencies.
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A researcher, transdisciplinary thinker, and life experimenter, Jean-François Noubel explores the frontiers of human consciousness and collective intelligence. He dedicates his work to understanding how humanity can evolve toward more conscious, free, and cooperative forms.
An open-source earthling, he lives within the gift economy and makes his own existence a laboratory for experimentation. His work reveals the invisible collective matrices — languages, narratives, monetary systems, social codes — that shape our perception of reality, and explores how to transform them to foster the evolution of consciousness.
Co-founder of Holosapiens (https://holosapiens.earth), an evolutionary laboratory that studies, experiments with, and disseminates the conditions through which our species evolves from Homo sapiens to Holo sapiens. The research focuses on the invisible and unconscious collective dynamics that shape our ways of thinking, perceiving the world, and acting. Holosapiens operates along three complementary axes: producing rigorous knowledge, embodying evolutionary practices through experimental living, and transmitting them through storytelling, in order to render the evolution of our species thinkable and desirable, at both individual and collective scales.
Co-director of the International Metapsychic Institute (https://metapsychique.org), a public utility organization that conducts scientific research on consciousness and non-ordinary phenomena, he also participates in pioneering technological projects like Holochain, and contributes to the emerging economic theories of deep wealth.
Living in Provence, he teaches martial arts, practices yoga, meditation, and paragliding.