[p2p-research] The Thorny Triangle: Cyber Conflict

[j.martin.pedersen]

On 15/03/10 14:32, Samuel Rose wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Matt Boggs <matt at digiblade.com> wrote:
>> Ryan, your response to Athina made me think of this quote from Rushkoff at
>> SXSW this week:
>>
>> if you're not a programmer, you're one of the programmed. If you're not able
>> at some level to alter your interfaces, to develop them to suit your own
>> needs, then you're fulfilling the needs of the interface creators.
> 
> 
> This is exactly why I learned to program. And, why I learned to
> design/make/fix/grow/process/distribute/manage things and resources.
> In turn, if many, many people are to learn these skills, I think this
> is where open licenses and commons-based approaches become important.

Importantly, one might say: If you can't grow a carrot, you are a
vegetable. Access to land is prior to any and all of these questions,
which remain mere luxuries unless you can grow your own food for
survival - indeed, dabbling in these questions while people are being
evicted from their land all over the world to grow biofuel for
cyberspace electricity, extract minerals for conductors and cables and
so on, is a displacement act devoid of solidarity with those who suffer
the consequences of our little virtual playground.

-mp