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July 23, 2016 1:35 AM
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A documentary on networks in Sarantaporo area produced by the media arts collective Personal Cinema.
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May 16, 2016 2:50 PM
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All Prior Art is a project attempting to algorithmically create and publicly publish all possible new prior art, making the published concepts un-patentable
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May 16, 2016 2:43 PM
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Next year will be the 40 years anniversary of Christopher Alexander‘s seminal work “A Pattern Language”. 20 years ago Nikos A.
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April 28, 2016 3:42 PM
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The 3rd Industrial Revolution is not really limited to computers or the internet. The revolution is expressed through the networking of everything
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April 10, 2016 9:49 AM
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If the future of banking is going to be digital, we want it to be populated with those who value the deeper tenets of open source philosophy.
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April 6, 2016 12:31 PM
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Market competition socializes the benefits of technological progress, absent artificial property rights that enable capitalists to enclose them as rent.
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March 15, 2016 4:27 PM
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Systems will never scale if you require global consensus for local actions by independent agents.
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March 6, 2016 3:26 PM
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Politics of Power are speculative objects/devices/fictional artefacts that question political and social implications of network ownership/control.
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January 25, 2016 3:29 PM
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A thought module proposed by Roberto Verzola, via email: “Please look more closely at net metering and the energy exchanges that happen under it. It seems to be similar to the kind of (economic calculation) mechanism you are looking for, as follows: – It measures the individual contribution of a solar owner’s surplus (the reversal …
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January 23, 2016 9:42 AM
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Why has Bitcoin failed? It has failed because the community has failed. What was meant to be a new, decentralised form of money that lacked “systemically important institutions” and “too big to fail” has become something even worse: a system completely controlled by just a handful of people. Worse still, the network is on the …
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January 19, 2016 3:19 PM
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The blockchain provides an alternative governance model to the current system of oligarchic control, argues Nozomi Hayase.
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January 17, 2016 4:19 PM
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Local connectivity is well within our technical means ... but it needs to be organised, says Mazi, the know-how put together and made available.
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January 15, 2016 1:39 PM
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Regarding the book: * Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. Verso, 2015 I must confess, I have not read the book yet, but I am familiar with the ‘accelerationist’ manifesto, with various reviews and discussions on the book, etc .. There is probably not a single …
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May 19, 2016 3:46 PM
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A non-p2p subject, echoing the last post about Remi Sussan’s webcast.
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May 16, 2016 2:48 PM
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Video panel exploring questions of why decentralization is relevant. The session addressed this topic with examples from projects like D-CENT and Pump.io, as well as the digital social innovation ecosystem in Europe. There was also a presentation about the European strategy for Collective Awareness Platforms and distributed infrastructures. Featuring David Rozas, Loretta Anania, Irina Bolychevsky,... Continue reading →
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May 8, 2016 6:07 PM
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Systems will never scale if you require global consensus for local actions by independent agents.
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April 26, 2016 4:55 PM
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The purpose of this ETUC/ETUI conference is to discuss how the world and nature of work and employment is being changed radically by the digital revolution.
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April 7, 2016 4:19 PM
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Solid, from social linked data, is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.
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April 1, 2016 4:24 PM
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A primer on the basics of the Blockchain and its potential to facilitate remittances, financial inclusion, cooperative structures and microinsurance systems
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March 14, 2016 5:00 PM
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On the convergence of the blockchain and the commons, with the blockchain as the new institutional technology that makes the commons scale.
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February 1, 2016 12:15 PM
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This is a 25 minute video about efforts in Bolivia to gain independence from foreign internet services. They are building, literally from scratch, a local communications infrastructure as well as a direct people-to-people local cloud net. Rebel Geeks – The Citizens’ Network This film investigates how Bolivian senator Nelida Sifuentes has led the campaign to …
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January 23, 2016 3:03 PM
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A series on true accelerationist technologies that will be instrumental against biospheric destruction: “”It’s possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems.” Environmental film maker John D.
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January 23, 2016 9:41 AM
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A series on true accelerationist technologies that will be instrumental against biospheric destruction. “With sustainability at the core of the design, parts can be manufactured directly from digital files at ‘Microfactories’, reducing the costs and carbon footprint associated with molding, casting and machine use. Users could recycle parts indefinitely, replacing damaged bodywork or upgrading as …
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January 18, 2016 3:04 PM
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A series on true accelerationist technologies that will be instrumental against biospheric destruction. “Although we might prize scarce items highly, civilizations are built on abundance.
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January 15, 2016 2:13 PM
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It is not often that one can encounter an author who is deeply read in both liberal, marxist and even libertarian literature, embracing Marx AND Ayn Rand, and claiming to show an underlyng unity. Please note that the underlying ideas for a technological utopia are not the ideas of the P2P Foundation, as we must …
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