[p2p-research] Was Re: P2P Medicine -- Making Your Smart Phone / Now P2P and Futurism

[Ryan Lanham]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Sam,
>
> as you perhaps know, I studied for a number of years the implications of
> the  transhuman promises, when making TechnoCalyps,
>
> my problems are:
>
> 1) people like kurzweil and other superlatives go seemlessly, and
> unwarrantedly, from actual research, to the promise of the research, to
> imagining that everything is done already
>
> I wonder if the follow-on from your position, Michel, is that evangelism
and futurism are inconsistent with P2P systems, which are more focused on
deployment and solutions?

I find the distinction of p2p to be its moral tones.  Its pervasive
political economic view is trust and responsibility--much more than any
brand of socialism or libertarianism, for example, I am aware of.

It may be those ethical traits which remove it from evangelism and,
especially, futurism.  Futurism must be speculative, rhetorical and
visioning.  Perhaps the risks associated with those veins makes futurism
inconsistent with p2p's moral/ethical tone.

Ryan
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