The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Communities: the institutions of the 21st century? An interview with Rachel Botsman Since her influential book about how collaborative consumption is changing the way we live, Rachel Botsman has been a leading actor in the collaborative economy and stimulated important debates about its future. OuiShare Fest Co-chair Francesca spoke to her about her vision of …
People Are Sharing in the Collaborative Economy for Convenience and Price Jeremiah Owyang Below Graphic: Partnered with Vision Critical, Crowd Companies (the association I started for big brands in the collaborative economy) surveyed over 90,000 people to find out why they share goods, services, space, transportation, and money. A dissection of the largest study in …
Of cooperation between men and machine For a peer-to-peer approach to collective intelligence It’s eight a.m. on a Monday morning in 2007. In the Arcueil examination centre, a thousand heads crane with difficulty over wooden desks that are damaged by pens scratching across thin sheets of paper. Railway lines surround the enclave; trains make the …
A list of P2P Lab collaborators’ publications in international peer-reviewed journals, starting from 2013: 2013 Peer Production and Desktop Manufacturing: The Case of the Helix_T Wind Turbine Project. Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy. Commons-Based Peer Production and Digital Fabrication: The Case of a RepRap-Based, Lego-Built 3D Printing-Milling Machine. Commons-Based Peer Production …
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Internet Phases: Past, Present, and Future Jeremiah Owyang web-strategist.com, 11 June 2013 Thanks to you, last week’s report on the collaborative economy was readily received, and has been viewed over 26k times, the media picked up on it, and bloggers alike. As we digest what it means, it’s important to recognize this is the next phase …
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Towards a grand coalition for the commons I believe there is a historic opporunity to reconstruct a progressive majority around enabling the commons, which would be based on the following political and sociological complementarity between political forces and parties. Though the fortunes of the new player in politics are down from the moment I wrote …
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Is it possible to identify the 500 most powerful individuals on the planet — one in 14 million? That’s what we tried to do with the inaugural FP Power Map, our inventory of the people who control the commanding heights of the industries that run the world, from politics to high finance, media to energy, …
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