[p2p-research] article request ...

[Michel Bauwens]

I would personally prefer a somewhat longer text, in which you can embed the
prezi,

but if your time pressed 2-3 paragraphs to set the context would do, but I
would really hope you write an essay on this important topic!! (at some
point)

Michel

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Maria Droujkova <droujkova at gmail.com> wrote:

> I made a somewhat more detailed summary about homeschooling, as a Prezi:
> http://prezi.com/yyhdbpsv9s6r/
>
> Do you want that as your blog post? Would you like this content in the
> narrative form? Do you want examples, details, illustrations for any parts
> of it? Do you think people would envision what each part means, or does it
> need a detailed "a day in the life of a homeschooler" example? Any other
> comments?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Maria Droujkova
> http://www.naturalmath.com
>
> Make math your own, to make your own math.
>
>
>
>
>   On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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