Jon Hillis

Co-founder of Cabin, a network city and coliving community experimenting with decentralized neighborhood governance. Author of the essay “Functional Local and Network Sovereignties” published through the European University Institute’s Network Sovereignties project. A key practitioner in the network nations design space, bridging theory and implementation of translocal community infrastructure.

Hillis’s work on Cabin explores how physical colocation nodes can be woven into a distributed network of places connected by shared governance and identity. His thinking on “functional local sovereignties” complements the Network Nations framework by grounding digital governance experiments in the practical reality of place-based community life. He contributes to the discussion of entanglement as a design principle for building voluntary interdependencies between nodes in a network.

Appears in: Ep 4: Entanglement — Building Voluntary Interdependencies