One answer is to grow like the internet.

First you imagine a future network of actors with aligned incentives.

Then you define a protocol that explains how to work together, even when the network is tiny, with incentives for non-actors to join the actor network. (When ARPANET launched it had 4 nodes.)

(A certain kind of protocol is a technology of cooperation, and I’ll use it in that sense here.)

A couple potential benefits of a protocol are

• permissionless innovation – anyone can get involved, and anyone can create new ways to get involved
• new commons – where there’s interop, mutual cooperation, and wide participation, everyone benefits without the gatekeeping of value.