Towards a Peer-to-peer Technium
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The document discusses the concept of a peer-to-peer technium, emphasizing the role of open source standards, data, and community collaboration in shaping technology and society. It critiques the existing economic structures that prioritize technology over human needs and advocates for a shift towards more cooperative and open models of production and governance. Influencers such as Michel Bauwens and the emergence of co-working spaces in Melbourne are highlighted as pivotal in the movement towards a more democratic and equitable approach to technology and innovation.
Towards a Peer-to-peer Technium
- 1. Towards a Peer-to-Peer Technium Tony Smith Asia-Pacific Kororoit Institute Foresight 17 November 2012 Conference
- 2. Towards a Peer-to-Peer Technium OPEN Source Standards Data more Michel Bauwens Co-founder and Digital Curator Tony Smith Asia-Pacific Kororoit Institute Foresight 17 November 2012 Conference
- 3. Towards a Peer-to-Peer Technium OPEN Source Standards Data more Michel Bauwens Co-founder and Digital Curator Tony Smith Asia-Pacific Kororoit Institute Foresight 17 November 2012 Conference
- 4. Towards a Peer-to-Peer Technium OPEN Source Standards Data more Michel Bauwens Co-founder and But what is Digital Curator technology? Tony Smith Asia-Pacific Kororoit Institute Foresight 17 November 2012 Conference
- 5. Towards a Peer-to-Peer Technium http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/ OPEN Source Standards Data more Michel Bauwens Co-founder and But what is Digital Curator technology? http://p2pfoundation.net/ Tony Smith Asia-Pacific Kororoit Institute Foresight 17 November 2012 Conference
- 6. Towards a Peer-to-Peer Technium http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/ OPEN Source Standards Data more Michel Bauwens Co-founder and But what is Digital Curator technology? http://p2pfoundation.net/ Tony Smith Asia-Pacific Kororoit Institute Foresight 17 November 2012 Conference
- 7. Towards a Peer-to-Peer Technium http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/ OPEN Source Standards Data more Michel Bauwens Co-founder and But what is Digital Curator technology? http://p2pfoundation.net/ Tony Smith Asia-Pacific Kororoit Institute Foresight 17 November 2012 Conference
- 8. What is the Technium?
- 9. What is the Technium? • It is the made world
- 10. What is the Technium? • It is the made world • Not just our artifacts, structures, hardware
- 11. What is the Technium? • It is the made world • Not just our artifacts, structures, hardware • Equally our processes, systems, information
- 12. What is the Technium? • It is the made world • Not just our artifacts, structures, hardware • Equally our processes, systems, information • It is not (the rest of) the social world
- 13. What is the Technium? • It is the made world • Not just our artifacts, structures, hardware • Equally our processes, systems, information • It is not (the rest of) the social world • Nor is it (the rest of) the natural world • It is disproportionately correlated with the measured economy • And a disproportionate share of that economy is devoted to servicing the Technium, rather than human community needs, let alone nature
- 15. Why Peer-to-Peer? • Challenge to management/leadership mythos
- 16. Why Peer-to-Peer? • Challenge to management/leadership mythos • Open Source Software (intrinsic validation) • Open Standards (non-discriminatory licensing) • Open Data (especially government data) • Open Access (reviving academic tradition) • Community, Commons, Co-working • Distributed File Sharing, Pirate Party, Occupy • Alternate notions of value and wealth
- 17. Taking view from axis of history of electronic information technologies • telegraphy • broadcast media • mainframe computers • personal computers • the internet • world wide web • social media • mobile apps
- 18. Media InfoTech Vannevar Bush Doug Engelbart Ted Nelson Intermedia PICA System
- 19. Environ Social Media Banking Industry mental Justice InfoTech Finance Vannevar Bush Community Memory Doug Engelbart Ted Nelson Whole Earth Catalog Intermedia PICA System Stewart Brand Kevin Kelly*
- 20. Environ Social Media Banking Industry mental Justice InfoTech Finance Vannevar Bush Community Memory Doug Engelbart Ted Nelson Whole Earth Catalog Intermedia PICA System Stewart Brand Kevin Kelly* The Well/BBS The Internet World Wide Web WIRED*
- 21. Environ Social Media Banking Industry mental Justice InfoTech Finance Vannevar Bush Doug Engelbart Commercial Community Memory data processing Ted Nelson Whole Earth Catalog Intermedia as amplifier PICA System Stewart Brand Census Kevin Kelly* Credit Cards The Well/BBS Proprietary Security The Internet Surveillance The Technium* World Wide Web eCommerce Cloud Hosting WIRED* Apps
- 22. Environ Social Media Banking Industry mental Justice InfoTech Finance Vannevar Bush Doug Engelbart Commercial Community Memory data processing Ted Nelson Whole Earth Catalog Intermedia as amplifier PICA System Stewart Brand Census Kevin Kelly* Credit Cards Request For Comment The Well/BBS Proprietary Open Source Security Copyleft Peer-to-Peer The Internet Surveillance The Technium* Digital Commons Pirate Party World Wide Web eCommerce Cloud Hosting Occupy WIRED* Apps
- 23. Environ Social Media Banking Industry mental Justice InfoTech Finance Vannevar Bush Doug Engelbart Commercial Community Memory data processing Ted Nelson Whole Earth Catalog Intermedia as amplifier PICA System Entrepreneurship Stewart Brand Census Employment / Consumption Kevin Kelly* Credit Cards The Arms of Government Request For Comment The Well/BBS Proprietary Open Source Security Copyleft Peer-to-Peer The Internet Surveillance The Technium* Digital Commons Pirate Party World Wide Web eCommerce Cloud Hosting Occupy WIRED* Apps
- 24. In the months since this paper was proposed, connections grew between Peer-to-Peer and The Technium, significantly influenced by the community surrounding HubMelbourne, including Michel Bauwens’ September visit.
- 25. In the months since this paper was proposed, connections grew between Peer-to-Peer and The Technium, significantly influenced by the community surrounding HubMelbourne, including Michel Bauwens’ September visit.
- 26. In the months since this paper was proposed, connections grew between Peer-to-Peer and The Technium, significantly influenced by the community surrounding HubMelbourne, including Michel Bauwens’ September visit.
- 27. In the months since this paper was proposed, connections grew between Peer-to-Peer and The Technium, significantly influenced by the community surrounding HubMelbourne, including Michel Bauwens’ September visit.
- 28. In the months since this paper was proposed, connections grew between Peer-to-Peer and The Technium, significantly influenced by the community surrounding HubMelbourne, including Michel Bauwens’ September visit.
- 29. In the months Enter Mark Pesce since this paper Archetypical was proposed, Technium connections Flown under my grew between radar until Peer-to-Peer and Melbourne 2012 The Technium, Singularity Summit significantly Inventor of VRML influenced by Now an Australian the community Judge on surrounding The New Inventors HubMelbourne, Proponent of including KickStarter project Michel Bauwens’ MooresCloud light September visit. (LAMP lamp)
- 30. In the months Enter Mark Pesce since this paper Archetypical was proposed, Technium connections Flown under my grew between radar until Peer-to-Peer and Melbourne 2012 The Technium, Singularity Summit significantly Inventor of VRML influenced by Now an Australian the community Judge on surrounding The New Inventors HubMelbourne, Proponent of including KickStarter project Michel Bauwens’ MooresCloud light September visit. (LAMP lamp)
- 31. In whatʼs left of 40 minutes • Emergence/Systems/Complexity as guide • The Technium ‣ What is Technology? ‣ Humanity Plus • Peer-to-Peer/OPEN ‣ Coordination, Cooperation, Collaboration ‣ Social Impact Professional • A long way to go if we get it right
- 33. Emergence/Systems/Complexity • More fundamental than physics • Synergy; feedback; supervenience; map-territory • Look to biology for exemplars; value diversity • Dissipative systems, ref. Stan Salthe • Kevin Kelly again: Out of Control (1993) • Life, the Universe and Everything? ‣ Exploring Possibilities, ref. Cantor, Gödel • What should we be doing? ‣ Exploring Possibilities; without limiting others
- 34. Emergence/Systems/Complexity • The terminology (silo) problem • Donella Meadows on Systems • Melanie Mitchell on Complexity • Ilya Prigogine and Robert Laughlin on emergence in condensed matter • Ralph Stacey on organisations • Bill Hall on knowledge management • Gradient dissipation in flow of words • Biology still the elephant in the room
- 35. • Kevin Kelly: What Technology Wants (2010) • Itʼs not just hardware + software ‣ itʼs also our organisations and our systems • Economy serves The Technium more than us • Cities designed for cars rather than humans • Leaving an arguably unhealthy dependency • Words are cheap, forming a gradient flow ‣ which self-justifying institutions dissipate
- 36. What is Technology? In 1992, working with educationalist Don Tinkler and futurist Peter Ellyard to produce a Federal Government report on the Effectiveness and Potential of State-of-the-Art Technologies in the Delivery of Higher Education, we set out to survey technology vendors. H.B. Selby Australia Limited had been a leading supplier of scientific and especially chemical equipment, with Higher Ed a big market, yet responded that they did not consider themselves a supplier of technologies to education. This was a year before release of Marc Andreessen’s Mosaic graphical World Wide Web browser and Al Gore’s information superhighway being quoted in the New York Times, yet gave a clear message that education technology had come to mean information technology. Twenty years on, developing Maker and DIY Bio communities may indicate a swing back. The map is not the territory.
- 37. This is one of those books that, after you’ve read it, you wonder how you will ever be able to hold relevant conversations with those who haven’t yet.
- 38. Wars unending Apple v Tandy
- 39. Wars unending Apple v IBM
- 40. Wars unending Apple v Micro$oft
- 41. Wars unending Apple v Google
- 42. Wars unending Apple v Samsung
- 43. Wars unending Apple v Exxon
- 44. Apple v Exxon Struggles ongoing
- 45. 4 pillars of Transhumanism aka Humanity+ Life extension Occupy Space Aubrey de Grey Keith Henson Nanotechnology Artificial K Eric Drexler Intelligence Humans as transitional
- 46. Interlewd Switching from The Technium back to Peer-to-Peer
- 47. Peer-to-Peer / OPEN • Internet Engineering Task Force RFC ‣ Request for comment: governance by peer consent • Open Source Software as core & model ‣ Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python, equivs & more ‣ Intrinsic valuation criteria: has to work & be useful • Open anything and everything • “Information wants to be free” ‣ Redressing recent bloat of “intellectual property” ‣ Licensing, Copyleft, Digital Commons • Peer-to-Peer: natural internet distribution
- 48. Open Source Software • Transparent, auditable, verifiable • Maintainability, extensibility, repositories ‣ Reduced obligation on founders ‣ Foundations in lieu: Apache, Perl, Mozilla (Firefox) • Repurposing: forking, merging • Version control: CVS, Subversion, GIT • Problem reporting and tracking ‣ Bugzilla, Request Tracker • Long tail project mgmt: SourceForge
- 50. Extending the model • Open Standards
- 51. Extending the model • Open Standards ‣ Licensing wars; XMLʼs long and circuitous history
- 52. Extending the model • Open Standards ‣ Licensing wars; XMLʼs long and circuitous history • Open Data, Govt. stats, Public Transport • Open Access to academic research • Maker (Open Hardware), DIYBio • As way of life / business ‣ crowd funding: KickStarter, Pozzible ‣ micro tasking: Airbnb, Shareable • Revisiting (tragedy of) the Commons
- 53. Indefensible business models (Though lens of emergence/systems/complexity) • Property begets a rentier class • Defend & grow your business model ‣ whether or not there is any fun in it • Cultivate dependencies ‣ the overly $impli$tic come to dominate • Invent intellectual property • Prosperous times beget middle men ‣ creating v adding value, defend first
- 54. Occupy Everything • Anonymity, trolls, flamewars ‣ neither ability to maintain nor need for secrecy, but for societyʼs rampant censoriousness • Peer-to-peer file sharingʼs many uses ‣ over?reaction of copyright licensing intermediaries • Pirate (political) parties gaining traction • Occupy Wall Street as contagion ‣ urban growth constraints, esp. sans favelas • White collar, paternalist commentariat
- 55. Back in our shared world P2P Foundation’s Michel Bauwens increasingly Tweeted about co-operatives in the same time period the Basque Mondragon federation of co-operatives was receiving wider attention. Since the baseless triumphalism of Wall Street destroyed much of living memory, the white collar urban commentariat has developed amnesia with respect to what had been a long legal colonisation of more democratic business ownership models. Even as recently as 1992, Clever Country Coöperative sounded like a really good idea but, after one consultancy for the Keating Government had pre-occupied half our membership, the group as a whole failed to complete its first reporting obligation cycle. As cracks in the still oft presumed only business model widen, it is time to look at a round of remutualisation alongside a new set of legal fictions to legitimise more natural forms of virtual organisation for crowd funding, micro tasking and lots more.
- 58. Co-working Spaces HUB MELBOURNE Heritage Repurposed
- 59. Co-working Spaces HUB MELBOURNE Heritage Repurposed Up 3 flights or old lift
- 60. Co-working Spaces HUB MELBOURNE Heritage Repurposed Up 3 flights or old lift Technology-enabled
- 61. Co-working Spaces HUB MELBOURNE Heritage Repurposed Up 3 flights or old lift Technology-enabled
- 62. Co-working Spaces HUB MELBOURNE Heritage Repurposed Up 3 flights or old lift Technology-enabled Social Impact Professionals
- 63. Co-working Spaces HUB MELBOURNE Heritage Repurposed Up 3 flights or old lift Technology-enabled Social Impact Professionals Busy event calendar
- 64. Co-working Spaces HUB MELBOURNE Heritage Repurposed Up 3 flights or old lift Technology-enabled Social Impact Professionals Busy event calendar
- 65. HUBʼs Green Room
- 66. HUBʼs Green Room Wednesdayʼs venue for Shareable Aust. launch
- 67. The Interwebs
- 69. Stigmergic Collaboration • Coördination Coöperation Collaboration ‣ Collabforgeʼs Mark Elliottʼs 2007 dissertation expounds their root word differentiation • Stigmergy as divergent/exploratory ‣ c.f. synergy, emergence, goal-directed • Wikipedia as exemplar of target medium ‣ from perspective of musical group performance • From eusocial insects to cities ‣ urban and environmental planning, public transport
- 70. To the Future, Together • Joe expounded the Big context last night • Our incomparably self-indulgent lives ‣ Saltheʼs maximum entropy production principle • Intelligence in isolation vastly overrated • Trade federation might deliver anything • Creative tensions and synergies ‣ without seeing it, could not anticipate what a proton and electron might achieve by getting together • Techno power with sharing caring ethic