[p2p-research] Important P2P Meme Often Overlooked

[Ryan Lanham]

Hi Michel:

Two things...I will work up a draft for you to consider on the Medical point
you mention below.  Also, you asked about forming some ideas on Open Money.
The term is more or less the domain of Guillaume Lebleu who I know you have
spoken to.  Guillaume and I hope to advance some ideas on that front.  No
doubt you will be first to hear as we do so. All others are invited as
processes evolve.  The aim, I suppose, is to facilitate easier application
of open money protocols by supporting technical, political and governance
angles on a broad and complex P2P topic.

For those interested, there is a mildly dormant Ning on Open Money where
links to Guillaume exist.  He is also active on Twitter where I am more
passive.  I know Guillaume has ambitions for more infrastructure.

I will lend my thoughts, but he is the organizational energy for now.
Lipton and many others are in that discussion.  I expect something to
precipitate from those interactions on that topic.  It is ripe.

Best,

Ryan




On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
>
> any chance you could develop this a little more into a blog article?
>
> the other aspect of high healthcare cost is monopoly pricing, both for
> medicines and for medical hardware, which could be fundamentally eased by
> public domain medicines and open design for medical hardware.
>
> This approach has been proposed (and probably studied) by Dean Baker,
>
> Michel
>
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> This is a crucial new theme for P2P which is going unwatched...healthcare
>> and test.
>>
>> The new iPhone (3) is going to greatly facilitate device use of nets.
>> That will revolutionize this area the way Kindle 2 is revolutionizing print.
>> Yes, there were forerunners and early innovators, but this is P2P maturity
>> wherein people will blast large datasets of their own health data to
>> discussions and analyses and where tests are created to run all sorts of P2P
>> outcomes with and without physician interactions.  Huge in the developing
>> world where cell phone nets are common but medicine is rare.
>>
>>
>> http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/self-directed-health-at-home-lab.html
>>
>> Smart money would bet on this as the vehicle for shattering impasses in
>> health care costs.  Whole industries now are dying...banking, publishing,
>> newsprint, etc. in direct P2P terms and almost no one is seeing the thread.
>> Futurists, where are you?
>>
>>
>> Ryan Lanham
>>
>>
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