Franz Narada on the three modes of peer production

Franz Narada, the tireless promotor of the concept and practice of Global Villages, recently gave a remarkable speech that can serve as a good introduction to peer production. Particularly illuminating are his distintions regarding three phases in the development of peer production, based on the intensity of the collaboration between peers, and its relation with the for-profit mode of production.”’

1. The classical “prosumer mode”, in which everybody is working
basically for themselves in using and customizing productive abilities created or
reinforced by industrial products that enable people do use “embodied
potentials” of information and automation. Alvin Toffler has discovered
that in the eighties, but only Shosanna Zuboff recently formulated that
this will result in a “copernican shift” where the value-creation in
the classical sense is replaced by the support economy.

2. The “swarm mode in which people are loosely aggregated in doing
things, either for themselves (ebay,musicsharing) or for an external
task that uses the “least effort” way (Seti@home and successors)

3. The “community mode”, in which the team up in new forms of voluntary
social organisation. (classical example Free Software).

The interesting thing is that this three modes are pretty separated,
but there is a “hidden continuum” structurally connecting them, they become
“mutual enablers”.

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