[p2p-research] article request ...

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Maria,

I wonder if I could not ask you for a little, one, possibly two, articles
for the p2p foundation blog?

one would be on the dynamics of the homeschooling movement,

and another a little review of the mars trilogy which mentions the competing
business models,

just in case you have time for this,

Michel Bauwens

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 2, 2010 at 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [OK] Red Mars - open collaboration business model
To: openkollab at googlegroups.com, sheri at speakeasy.org


Sheri,

The Mars trilogy is one of my favorites as well, for the same reason
some people dislike it (the author using the story to express his
Utopian ideas). Is the gathering you are talking about Wisdom 2.0 from
your Twitter hashtags? Interesting!

In the book, there were several economies at once. Some things were
totally open and free, like this lab gifted to the underground
scientists by the new progressive megacorp that ended up supporting
the independence of Mars - however, it came from the said megacorp
participating in the money-based economy on Earth. Other things were
free as the information on the internet is now free, because there
were no costs to duplicating them, for example, goods produced by
self-replicating robots running on solar energy. There was an involved
gift economy with complex rules based on some tribal traditions. There
was a common standard for the necessities, very similar to money.
Coops had internal goods and service economies, providing members with
necessities. Then of course there was the old capitalist system
coexisting with all that. One of my favorite paragraphs about culture
clashes described the young natives approaching newly arrived Earth
corporations with requests for machinery for their projects, and
totally expecting the machinery to be free because the projects are
valuable.

I am closely observing (and supporting) homeschool communities and
networks in the US. They have complex gift, care, money and coop
economies interacting with money-based economy. It's fascinating.

Cheers,
Maria Droujkova
http://www.naturalmath.com

Make math your own, to make your own math.

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