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Airbnb and Uber’s sharing economy is one route to dotcommunism

Peer-to-peer platforms have changed the game. Make them cheap or free, and it would be way of reinventing the economy to deliver participation and choice alongside social justice

»Economists came to describe this benefit of collaboration as a “positive externality”. And the clue is in the name. It’s good, but it comes from somewhere outside the strict market relationship between two parties in a contract. The next problem is how to quantify the benefit – and decide who should own it.«

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Welcome to the world of the platform

Powerful tech firms are altering not just the way we buy things, but could sweep away an entire economic model

»... instead of adhering to a precise and rigorous code that spells out the rights of customers and the obligations of service providers – the cornerstone of the modern regulatory state – platform operators rely on the widely distributed knowledge of participants in a service, hoping that the market will eventually punish those who misbehave.«

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Smart City vs. Collective Intelligence in Barcelona

(Barcelona en Comú party celebrates) Barcelona en Comú party celebrates in Barcelona during a press conference following the results in Spain's municipal and regional elections on May 24.

»Launched in June of last year, Barcelona en Comú is made up of activists, social movements and progressive political parties who share the goal of “winning back” Barcelona from the political and economic elites holding it hostage and democratizing the city's public institutions.Two, very different urban visions went head-to-head in the elections: the professionalized, Smart City of incumbent mayor Xavier Trias, and the city governed by the 'collective intelligence' of its citizens, advocated by Ada Colau.«

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The hyperindividualization of the late 20th century was met by a hypersocialization in the early 21st. (Photo CC-BY Kio Stark) http://ift.tt/1F00zzm

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Five Hundred Years — EV #2

The key to understanding modernity is by analogy with a prison.

Jump-cut. Markets achieve escape velocity from their disciplinary matrices. Power no longer lies in confining physical bodies, but in controlling flows of data.

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Jump-cut. Markets achieve escape velocity from their disciplinary matrices. http://ift.tt/1OZvXV6

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Five Hundred Years: The key to understanding modernity is by analogy with a prison. http://ift.tt/1GXylYg

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In this future, what publications will have done individually is adapt to survive; what they will have helped do together is take the grand weird promises of writing and reporting and film and art on the internet and consolidated them into a set of business interests that most closely resemble the TV industry.

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Data is fast becoming one of the defining ‘materials’ of our age, something that interpenetrates every aspect of daily life, in ways both seen and unseen. As such, its value as a currency of cultural expression is rapidly expanding, as artists look to exploit its capacity to interrogate and uncover the world as it is now.

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»… before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field.«

—Mikhail Kalashnikov

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The Soviet Union made Kalashnikov's design available free of licenses and patents to allies and client states http://ift.tt/1zHmX0f

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Given the financial collapse of 2008 and subsequent austerity measures around the world, of which all but the mega-wealthy are still reeling from, we’ve been forced to use our homes as economic tools of investment as much as private spaces for family and loved ones. An investment which fewer and fewer people can afford to make.,

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Vores årsrapport er endelig kommet fra trykken. Det er et magasin, der griber om de tendenser og trends vi har undersøgt i 2014, kondenseret ned til de vigtigste pointer. Vi har været så heldige at få den dygtige designer Stinne Marie Wilhelmsen til at sætte det hele op for os, så det er en fryd for øjet. Vi håber du kommer forbi til et glas bobler eller en øl og måske en snak om, hvad du eller din virksomhed er med til at skabe af emergent værdi.

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This report is primarily about positive externalities, i.e. the value created outside traditional organizational boundaries. The core underlying argument is that supporting communities, empowering users and contributing to the commons is essential for value creation within the organizations themselves.

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This report is primarily about positive externalities. #solobeta #emergentvalue #internetofpeople #cover http://ift.tt/1Ez5pTP

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Mikko Hypponen: »The Internet is on fire«