Third and last part of Chris Cook’s propositions for a new market structure: Chris Cook: We have seen how two distinct consortia comprise Market 3.0. How is it possible to link them together into a seamless enterprise with a viable business model? Virtually all markets were until relatively recently run by cartels of intermediaries (i.e…. Continue reading
Erik Davies reviews Steven Vedro’s Digital Dharma
Erik Davies: “Ten years ago, I came out with the first edition of Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Information Age, which for its novelty alone still stands as probably the most “important†thing I’ve written. Lots of things have happened in the last decade to the media ecologies I looked at back then,… Continue reading
Chris Cook on a structure for Market 3.0, part two: Regulation 3.0
We continue the exposition of the proposal for a new market structure by Chris Cook, which we started yesterday. Chris Cook: Mutual trust is the glue that binds markets together. Regulation engenders trust, and the setting and enforcement of market standards of behaviour and propriety are the essence of successful regulation. At the dawn of… Continue reading
Drew Endy on the need to open source synthetic biology
From a long in-depth interview at The Edge, with Drew Endy, who is Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at MIT, and which reviews 30 years of progress in ‘engineering biology’. The start of the conversation has the following significant quote: “the biosecurity framework needs to recognize that it’s not going to be nation-state driven work… Continue reading
Chris Cook on a structure for Market 3.0, part one
Chris Cook on Why Market 3.0?: The first generation of markets — Market 1.0 — was decentralised but disconnected, and ‘market presence’ required the physical presence of buyer and seller, typically in local and regional exchanges. Market 2.0, which has now reached its zenith, is centralised but connected, with market presence through intermediaries such as… Continue reading
Stan Rhodes: 3 fundamental arguments against the continuation of copyright restrictions
Stimulated by a series of sceptical arguments against the full abolition of copyright by Marco Fioretti, the P2P research discussion list debated the issue for a few days. What particularly struck me is the intervention of Stan Rhodes, which I’m reproducing here below. Stan and myself also believe there is an added subjective reality, which… Continue reading
Announcement: First Issue of Resistance Studies journal
Republished Via the Negations blog: The first issue of Resistance Studies has just been made available online. You can find it in PDF format here and read a press release about the project here. The following is a summary of its content (provided by the publishers): “The article by Karl PalmÃ¥s discusses the possible rupture… Continue reading
Steve Bosserman on Common vs. Differentiated Value
A follow-up to yesterday’s contribution and in particular to the graphic presented in that article. Steve Bosserman: “There are two planes, common value and differentiated value, that establish an operating space in which a person divides efforts between giving some or all of what is done to the commonweal versus presenting it for sale in… Continue reading
A P2P critique of Transhumanism
Dale Carrico, a very astute political thinker with whom I feel a certain kinship, has been developping over the last 18 months, a critique of transhumanism as an ideology. In this entry, he kind of summarizes the main points. Dale: The Superlative Imagination is, in my view, premised on ignorance of or even active hostility… Continue reading
Steve Bosserman on Economic Sustainability in a world of Open Design
This article by Steve Bosserman is about the best that I have read about the issue of sustainability in a world of open design. It’s an article which should be read slowly, it is a slow buildup of simple but intricate arguments, and has the illustrative graphics to match. I want to retrace my own… Continue reading
From free software to the free drugs movement
I recently stumbled on an extensive essay by Tony Prug, which examines different aspects of the impact and extension of the free software principles in other domains of social life. Amongst other things, it has a examination on the relationship between the hacker ethic and the Protestant ethic, a dialogue with the hypothesis of Pekka… Continue reading
Rethinking music
Magnus Eriksson and Rasmus Fleischer, founders of the Piratbyran in Sweden, have published an interesting mini-essay on music, technology and participation, which attempts to recast the stale debate about copyright. I belatedly discovered it through a interesting commentary on the Swarming Media blog. Here’s an interesting excerpt from a text which is worth reading in… Continue reading
Franz Nahrada: A Vision for Global Villages
Some countries have national treasures, great living artists or craftspeople that are protected through national grants (Japan and Thailand come to mind). I believe that some people are living international treasures, and I consider Franz, whom I met in Vienna, to be one such person, and he has consistently helped people and projects to advance… Continue reading
The P2P Foundation launches its first ever social network
As I make a living through lecture tours, which brings me away from home a large part of the time, I particularly enjoy it when I’m home, both for being with my family and second batch of small children, and because it allows me to focus again on research, creating content for the blog and… Continue reading
Jason “jz†Liszkiewicz on community-interest-driven technologies
Somewhat similar in nature to the Japanese project we mentioned earlier, it would seem that the p2p theme is now also resonating with urban developments. JZ has written an essay with the intriguing alternative title, “Transformation through Transportation: The Convergence of the Transportation Industry, Information Technology, and the Knowledge Economy“, which will appear in an… Continue reading
Bottom-up vs. top down: modalities of peer governance
Two items to help you think through the ‘hybridity’ of peer governance. The journal Science Studies has an interesting case study, which examines the interlocking of three levels of control in a open source project, nl. self-control (individual autonomy), more central control by a group of core developers, and the distributed control by peers. Read:… Continue reading