[p2p-research] thinking about leapfrogging

[Michel Bauwens]

Thanks,

I have posted Vinay's article, with Kevin's comments, here at
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/is-leapfrogging-at-all-possible/2008/10/03,
for october 3

Michel

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Kevin Carson <
free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> Mutualist Blog:  Free Market Anti-Capitalism
> http://mutualist.blogspot.com
> Studies in Mutualist Political Economy
> http://www.mutualist.org/id47.html
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> http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html
>
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