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Tech

The Emergence of Open Design and Manufacturing

Michel Bauwens

We mistakenly think nature is infinite, and that scarcity should be a source of profit. We need to combine a recognition of the real scarcity of physical goods with the real abundance of immaterial goods to generate a new and sustainable civilization based on peer to peer principles. (more)

5-13-09

Commons

The Importance of Neotraditional Approaches in the Reconstructive, Transmodern Era

Michel Bauwens

Open content encourages participatory social design and new alliances between technology and traditional practices toward a steady-state economy that can bypass the destructive practices of industrial-era modernism. (more)

11-19-08

Commons

The Peer to Peer Manifesto: The Emergence of P2P Civilization and Political Economy

Michel Bauwens

Our political economy is based on a mistake – that natural resources are unlimited, and that it is an endless sink. This false assumption creates artificial scarcity for cultural resources, destroys the biosphere, and hampers a free culture. In a P2P-based society, this situation is reversed. (more)

6-16-08

Psyche

The Next Buddha Will Be a Collective

Michel Bauwens

As society evolves towards distributed networks, with peer to peer based social relations, it will affect spiritual expression in fundamental ways. (more)

3-24-08

Commons

The Political Economy of Peer Production

Michel Bauwens

The P2P (peer-to-peer) revolution didn't end with Napster. P2P is giving rise to a new mode of production, a new mode of governance, and a new mode of property. It is poised to overhaul our political economy in unprecedented ways. (more)

1-31-08