[p2p-research] Google to tear down social networking walls

[Samuel Rose]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> tough road, but many young people seem to understand it intuitively, as in
> the emerging open design world,
>
> Michel
>


I honestly don't know if the road is any more tough than the traditional
routes to success, at least in terms of cost, energy expended.

I am already personally seeing more success as a networked independent who
works with FLOSS than I ever did working for any company. I think that it is
still early for physical production of copylefted design. But, there are
already many people moving in this direction, too.

I can imagine that a role for people literate in Peer to Peer concepts and
practice, to work with people who are now being laid off from dying
industries and outdated jobs are looking for something to turn to, and
commons-based economies are a great fit for many, many people. Many of them
just don't know where to start.

It's my opinion that people who create and sustain commons-based economies
will be able to sustain themselves through the changes that we are now going
through. Commons based economies actually allow growth to shift to areas
that were neglected (like impoverished people, local systems). So, there are
tremendous opportunities right now for people who have a literacy and
practical knowledge in commons-based systems.

One of the components missing a way to make ethics within these systems more
transparent and integral in the basic function of economies. It's my opinion
that commons-based economies will die without addressing and sustain ethical
values for participants.

In short, I think this road is tougher only because we have not yet put
together a practical set of building blocks for people to adopt and grow
from. I think we are getting closer, though. I think we don't have too much
further to go.



>
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Paul B. Hartzog <paulbhartzog at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> As usual Sam is right on the money here.
>>
>> In Kevin Kelly's 'New Rules' book he points out that projects that
>> succeed will do so because they will 'feed the network first' i.e.
>> they will be part of a successful ecology of producers.
>>
>> I wish we could get more small businesses and cooperative workgroups
>> to realize that in order to succeed they need to first seek out the
>> others in their ecology that constitute complements to their own work,
>> producer bigger feedback loops, and more sustainability.
>>
>> Tough road though.....
>>
>> -paul
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Michel, I think that the pace of change is going to pick up over the
>> next 5
>> > years as compared to the last 10
>> >
>> > Soon, we won't be able to point to any one emerging service or change as
>> a
>> > world-impacting. It will be more like collections (or "ecologies") of
>> > changes. There will be too much for a guy like you to keep up with! (if
>> > there is not already)
>> >
>> > There are so many reasons why this is happening that I don't have time
>> to
>> > get into them all right now.
>> >
>> > One trend that is emerging is that many people are now actively trying
>> to
>> > use several technologies in the practice of solving problems. And so,
>> field
>> > builders, trend watchers, people involved in futures studies or academic
>> > understanding of what is "happening" will need to also be involved as
>> > observers and participants in what is happening, to really follow it.
>> This
>> > gives a multi-way advantage to everyone involved, in that academics have
>> > more immediate connection to what is happening, and people trying to
>> solve
>> > problems have more immediate connection to academic understanding.
>> >
>> > There is a new set of "business"/financial/operating models emerging
>> that
>> > can support this. I can give several examples if people are interested.
>> >
>>
>>


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