Michel Bauwens: The following is a copy of an email by Nicholas Bentley on Intellectual Contributions and how it relates to the P2P Meme. A presentation of his ideas, which entails a reform of Intellectual Property legislation, is here, but I have yet to read it in detail. Here below is the excerpt from Nicholas,… Continue reading
Date archives "January 2006"
Kevin Carson and Matthew Claxton on Desktop Manufacturing and P2P economies
This is such an interesting explanation from the Mutualist Blog, at that I’m quoting it in full-length. Kevin Carson: In the comments on “The Two Economies,” Matthew Claxton of Little Iguanodon referred me in the comment thread to material on desktop manufacturing. As he says, Manufacturing is already, in small ways, breaking out into an… Continue reading
A P2P Theory for Social Change
Michel Bauwens: I’m reposting an editorial written for P2P News 101, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p101&mode=print, which was a special issue on ‘P2P and Market Exchange’ (the index of thematic issues is here at http://integralvisioning.org/index.php?topic=p2p). It’s a contribution towards the relation between P2P Theory and strategies for social and pollitical change. It was commented upon by the Mutualist… Continue reading
Joi Ito discussed the importance of Open Networks
Recently was over at the Chaos Communication Conference site which is a hacker convention held for 20 odd years in Germany! This year’s keynote speaker was web celeb, Joi Ito, who delivers a fascinating talk on the importance of open networks. Select the keynote lecture and fast foward with the slider until joi begins his… Continue reading
Jorge Ferrer, participatory spirituality, and the comparing mind
Michel Bauwens: Even back in the days when I was a strong supporter of Ken Wilber, I had difficulties with applying the developmental categorizing to people, feeling very uncomfortable doing so. This feeling of course has become an indignation at the way the Spiral Dynamics colour coding is now used to intimidate people by calling… Continue reading
A dialogue with David Bollier: P2P, The Commons and the Open paradigm
The following questions were received by David Bollier of the On The Commons blog, as David is someone I admire greatly and there many overlaps between the movement for the Commons, the Open paradigm, and the P2P paradigm. He sent me a number of questions, and I propose to start the blog with an answer… Continue reading
Trusting Google, or not?
I’ve often argued that the corporate Web 2.0 platform enablers have a dual nature. They need both the trust of the user community (acting as dolphins, from a philosophy of abundance, working with trust), and need to please their shareholders (acting as sharks, from a philosophy of scarcity, trying to manipulate consumers). I recently attended… Continue reading