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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)