[p2p-research] barriers to post-industrial transition

Sun Aug 24 11:50:14 CEST 2008

Hi Martien,

I asked the community because I was short on time, so I may just watch!!

Where would you like to do this? Ning or the wiki, just go ahead and let us
know,

Michel

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Martien van Steenbergen <
Martien at aardrock.com> wrote:

> btw, 500 words is exactly 10 mini sagas (see below). so what 10 topics do
> you want to convey? list them and write a mini saga for each of them. can be
> a mini-crowd-sourced effort. let's put the money where our hearts are.
> I hereby volunteer to take responsibility for one or two of them.
>
> Succes en plezier,
>
> Martien.
>
>
> *Mini saga*
> A mini saga is a story told in exactly 50 words—not 49 or 51 but in exactly
> 50 words.
> *
> *
> *Benefits*
>
>    1. Writing a mini saga expands your creativity. Constraints typically
>    expand creativity or induce flight. When you have to put everything in 50
>    words, you have to "leave behind" a lot. That's where the creative juices
>    start flowing.
>    2. Writing a mini saga stretches your thinking. What will you write
>    about? You have to think about topics that will fit in 50 words or squeeze
>    them to fit in 50 words. That puts thinking on overdrive mode.
>    3. Writing a mini saga enhances your discipline. Deciding what to write
>    about, deciding what to leave behind and putting it in 50 words requires
>    discipline throughout.
>    4. It may help you win a call for submission.
>
>
>
> On 24 Aug 2008, at 11:08 , Martien van Steenbergen wrote:
>
> join hands and write it up on the wiki...
> On 24 Aug 2008, at 11:02 , Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
> Vasilis has also taken a go,
>
> Michel
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I am going to take a crack at it, and this is something that Paul B
>> Hartzog could also have some valuable contributions towards, too.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder if anybody would be interested in writing a 500 word article for
>>> the following call for submissions below, and be willing to sign with
>>> p2pfoundation as well?
>>>
>>> thanks for considering it,
>>>
>>> Michel
>>>  Bridges to the Post Industrial Planet
>>>
>>> Our future well-being requires that in twenty years' time we should be
>>> living in a manner that differs markedly from the way we've lived in the
>>> past century and a half. It seems likely we'll consume less energy, use
>>> physical resources more sparingly, moderate the waste we generate, make
>>> fewer long journeys, rely more on local produce, repair things we'd
>>> currently replace, share objects we might currently own. Other implications
>>> are less obvious but potentially significant. Will be the role of
>>> corporations change? How will our societies be governed? What civil
>>> liberties can we expect?
>>>
>>> The better we're able to imagine a post industrial world, the better we
>>> can identify the barriers to getting there and prepare bridges to get over
>>> them.
>>> // CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS //
>>>
>>> We're inviting people to write a few paragraphs, no more than 500 words,
>>> outlining the greatest difficulty you think we face in making the transition
>>> to a post industrial world. This might be a technological issue, a cultural
>>> barrier, an economic factor or something else. If you have ideas about how
>>> the barrier could be overcome go ahead and outline them too.
>>>
>>> Send your submission to open at CIRCUS-foundation.org<//open at CIRCUS-foundation.org>along with a couple of lines about who you are. The results will be compiled
>>> in a book that will be published free on the web and form the basis of a
>>> seminar to be held in London later in 2008.
>>>
>>>
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