Dear friends, in anticipation of its publication on March 4, here is the new cover of our mass audience book on the P2P revolution: (see french summary below the cover) Présentation de l’éditeur “Pour la plupart des gens, le peer-to-peer évoque des réseaux où les utilisateurs peuvent échanger des documents. Michel Bauwens présente ici une… Continue reading
Date archives "March 2015"
Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens: The Bitcoin Experience (part I)
OUR BANKER WHO ART IN CYBERSPACE SATOSHI BE THY NAME THY BITCOIN COME DOLLAR BILLS BE GONE IN OUR POCKETS, AS IT IS ONLINE GIVE US THIS DAY OUR CONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS AND FORGIVE US OUR DOUBLE SPENDING AS WE ALSO HAVE FORGIVEN TRENDON SHAVERS AND LEAD US NOT FROM THE BLOCKCHAIN BUT DELIVER US THE… Continue reading
Special Offer this week only book now for Schumacher Course ‘Towards a Commons Based Political Economy’
If you have been considering taking part in the Schumacher College course ‘Towards a Commons Based Political Economy’ with Michel Bauwens, John Restakis and I, now it the time to book. For this week only Shumacher have announced a special offer on the course and have dropped the fee to £595. Course dates: Monday, 20… Continue reading
Syriza’s policy for ecological and energy transformation
“The actions of the new government suggest that Syriza is ready to take steps to implement key aspects of the platform adopted at its first Congress in July 2013. Syriza is committed to “a new paradigm of social, environmental and economic development” and for the “ecological transformation of the economy.” Syriza says it will pursue… Continue reading
A Commons sense
Poor Indian farmers are rich in two things: knowledge and biodiversity. The future of food depends on preserving both: Since the 1970s, the number of rice varieties in India has plummeted from roughly 100,000 to 7,000. The massive drop is largely due to the rise of high-yield crops born from the Green Revolution, which helped… Continue reading
La’Zooz: The Decentralized, Crypto-Alternative to Uber
What makes a lot of people uncomfortable about a phenomenon like Uber, when you get right down to it, is how it is owned. As in other mega-Internet companies, a small number of owners poised to take over a global industry—in this case, the taxi industry with ownership currently spread out among local drivers and… Continue reading
Glimmers of hope for a ‘fair shares society’
As part of STWR’s ‘global call for sharing’ campaign, we are periodically highlighting the growing public debate on the need for wealth, power and resources to be shared more equitably both within countries and internationally. This debate is becoming more prominent by the day, although it is often framed in an implicit context without directly acknowledging… Continue reading