# Akash's mission: society controls the system

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-01-30
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** The Unstoppable Live Stream w/ Greg Osuri and Brian Fox (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:09:11 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kkj0veGYJU&t=551s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2021-01-30-akash-s-mission-society-controls-the-system-jbcg/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash's mission: society controls the system," The Unstoppable Live Stream w/ Greg Osuri and Brian Fox (Akash Network), 30 Jan 2021, 00:09:11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kkj0veGYJU&t=551s

## Quote — verbatim

> The mission of Akash is to develop a modern, high performance, sovereign open cloud... where the system is not controlling the society but the other way — the society is controlling the system. It's the first attempt of creating an open source cloud.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Framing computing as "the fabric of human society" put at risk by a closed oligopoly; the crypto token is the sustainability mechanism open source lacked.