Tagged with Peer to Peer

A new model of power that may be an answer to the contemporary crisis of democracy is evolving out of new social practices. What can peer production teach us about the society of the future? (more)

Copyright law now protects creative works for almost a century. At the very least, copyright terms should be drastically reduced. Of course, the concept of revising creative compensation is based on the presumption that we will still use monetary currency with inborn inflation in the future. But a gradual transition would be better than picking up the pieces in a post-apocalyptic world. (more)

We are watching a financial meltdown, but what's dying is not business itself, but a financial parasite. The future actually looks brighter unencumbered by an investment industry that is a drag on business. (more)

Open source software development has shown that allowing ideas to evolve based on their merit, rather than on a sales pitch, creates pathways to new innovations. Could open source, peer-to-peer distributed methods be the basis of our next economy? (more)

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)

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)