[p2p-research] Very important news, and suggestions

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Eric K.,

thanks for this, I copy my list since it contains no personal info and the
news is quite significant!

Dear Eric H. or Sam: is this something you could cover for our blog, as it
is also a breakthrough?

Michel




On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Eric K. <eric.kalki at gmail.com> wrote:

> "The US Military Special Operations Command is building eight "mobile
> factories"
> http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/08/resilient-community-forget-afghanistan-these-are-needed-in-detroit-etc.html
>
> "Hyperlocal manufacturing is real.  Think of it as one of the economic
> hearts of a thriving resilient community.  It's a revolution already in
> motion, as you can see in the rapid spread of hackerspaces<http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/08/journal-forget-silicon-valley-and-wall-street.html>.
>  Connect these hackerspaces, and the communities they serve, with networks<http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/09/resilient-com-1.html>that allow people to share, buy/sell, modify, customize, etc. designs for
> products/parts, and we are on our a way to a resilient decentralized
> economy<http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2010/01/darknet-economies.html> that
> can survive the economic dislocation to come. "
>
> I think you shall add kevin kelly quotes and links in P2P foundation wiki (
> about abundance ) :
>
> "
>
> Plentitude, not scarcity, governs the network economy. Duplication,
> replication, and copies run in excess. Whatever can be made, can be made
> in abundance. This plentitude:
>
>    - drives value
>    - works to open up closed systems
>    - spins off immense numbers of opportunities
>
> Consider the first modern fax machine that rolled off the conveyor belt
> around 1965. Despite millions of dollars spent on its R&D, it was worth
> nothing. Zero. The second fax machine to be made immediately made the first
> one worth something. There was someone to fax to. Because fax machines are
> linked into a network, each additional fax machine that is shipped increases
> the value of all the fax machines operating before it.
>
> This is called the fax effect. The fax effect dictates that plentitude
> generates value."
>
> http://www.kk.org/newrules/blog/3-plentitude-not-scarcity/
>
> http://www.kk.org/newrules/blog/this-new-economy/
>
> http://www.kk.org/newrules/blog/
>
>
> Eric C.
>
>
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