[p2p-research] thinking about leapfrogging

[Kevin Carson]

On 10/1/08, Vinay Gupta <hexayurt at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.appropedia.org/User:Vinay_Gupta#Envisioning_a_Leapfrogged_World

"Leapfrogging... is the idea that countries without basic
infrastructure like universal telecommunications can go directly to
the best, most fitting solutions without having labor through the
developmental struggle of telegraph, manually-switched telephony,
direct-dial, brick-sized cell phones, analog cell phones, 3G digital."

It also means, IMO, leapfrogging what Lewis Mumford called
"paleotechnic" production methods (centrally located Dark Satanic
mills producing on a large scale for large market areas) to neotechnic
methods instead (small-scale production using free-standing
electrically powered machinery, for local economies--including for the
household and barter economy).

It's not just the consumer goods technology that's leapfrogged, it's
the economic model.

-- 
Kevin Carson
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