Times, they are a changing...

“Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.”
Milton Friedman


"Changing the world is a thankless task. There’s no moment of triumph when your adversaries humbly acknowledge you were right. In politics, the best you can hope for is plagiarism".

The Overton Window.

Here

Giving narratives a framework for a better world

"At the very least, there is some possibility, even hope, that we could have a world in which much more of intellectual and inventive production is free. "'Free' as in 'free speech,'" Richard Stallman says, not "'free' as in 'free beer.'" But we could hope that much of it would be both free of centralized control and low cost or no cost. When the marginal cost of production is zero, the marginal cost of transmission and storage approaches zero, the process of creation is additive, and much of the labor doesn't charge – well, the world looks a little different. This is at least a possible future, or part of a possible future, and one that we should not foreclose without thinking twice."
Jeremy Rifkin, in Zero Marginal Cost Society [pg 220]


The Second Enclosure Movement - James Boyle - Conference on the Public Domain

"When you give a monopoly to someone it is an incentive for governmental corruption. You are setting up a continuing system os incentives designed to ensure the corruption of your government."
[26:17]

James Boyle: The Second Enclosure Movement and the Construction of the Public Domain:

Abstract:

"We are in the middle of a second enclosure movement. It sounds grandiloquent to call it "the enclosure of the intangible commons of the mind," but in a very real sense that is just what it is. True, the new state-created property rights may be "intellectual" rather than "real," but once again things that were formerly thought of as either common property or uncommodifiable are being covered with new, or newly extended, property rights. In this article, I try to develop the vocabulary and the analytic tools necessary to turn the tide of enclosure. I offer an historical sketch of various types of skepticism about intellectual property, from the antimonopolist criticisms of the Framers of the U.S. Constitution, through the emergence of affirmative arguments for the public domain, to the use of the language of the commons to defend the possibility of distributed methods of non-proprietary production. In many ways, it turns out, concepts of the public domain show the same variation in assumptions, and the same analytic differences, as the concept of property itself. I conclude by arguing that, for a number of reasons, the appropriate model for the change in thinking which I argue for comes from the history of the environmental movement. The invention of the concept of "the environment" pulls together a string of otherwise disconnected issues, offers analytical insight into the blindness implicit in prior ways of thinking, and leads to perception of common interest where none was seen before. Like the environment, the public domain must be "invented" before it is saved. Like the environment, like "nature," the public domain turns out to be a concept that is considerably more slippery than many of us realize. And, like the environment, the public domain nevertheless turns out to be useful, perhaps even necessary."
here


The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose


The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine


The poor and wretched don't escape
If they conspire the law to break
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law


The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back

[Seventeenth century protest against English enclosures]

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Thomas More (one of the only political theorists who are also a saint!):

"your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I heard say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up, and swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities."
Here

Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media

"We grew up to be consumers of Media. Now Media is consuming us. The things we read watch us read them. The things we listen to, listen to us listen to them."


re:publica 2012 - Eben Moglen - Freedom of Thought Requires Free Media


Anarchism Triumphant: "This paper shows why free software, far from being a marginal participant in the commercial software market, is the vital first step in the withering away of the intellectual property system." - here

The Collaborative Commons / towards 'the end of History' (?)

"...there lies outside purely private property and government-controlled 'public property' a distinct class of 'inherently public property' which is fully controlled by neither government nor private agents.  [this is] property collectively 'owned' and 'managed' by society at large, with claims independent of and indeed superior to the claims of any purported governmental manager."

Carol Rose, quoted by Jeremy Rifkin in The Zero Marginal Cost Society [pg 189/190]

Paying for the IoT

The Internet of Things is the first general purpose technology platform in history that can potentially take large parts of the economy to near zero marginal costs. And that’s what makes the marginal cost controversy so pivotal to humanity’s future.

Whether the new potential inherent in the IoT infrastructure can be realised will be determined by who finances the platform.

The struggle for control is already well underway, mostly behind the scenes, in regulatory commissions, courtrooms, legislatures, corporate boardrooms, civil society organisations, and academic circles all over the world. As of yet, only snippets of the discussion have bubbled up to the public consciousness. That is likely to change in the next few years as a younger generation squares off with itself on what kind of economic future it favours.

Jeremy Rifkin, Zero Marginal Cost Society [pg 167]

The search for transcendence and meaning

"In the coming era, deep play in the Collaborative Commons becomes as important as hard work was in the market economy, and the amassing of social capital becomes as valued as the accumulation of market capital. Attachment to community and the search for transcendence and meaning comes to define the measure of one's life rather than one's material wealth.

[...] If the steam engine freed human beings from feudal bondage to pursue material self-interest in the capitalist marketplace, the Internet Of Things frees human beings from the market economy to pursue nonmaterial shared interests on the Collaborative Commons. Many – but not all – of our basic material needs will be met for nearly free in a near zero marginal cost society. Intelligent technology will do most of the heavy lifting in an economy centered on abundance rather than scarcity. A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons."
Jeremy Rifkin, Zero Marginal Cost Society [pg 161]

3D

The democratization of production fundamentally disrupts the centralized manufacturing practices of the vertically integrated Second Industrial Revolution. The radical implications of installing Fab Labs all over the world so that everyone can be a prosumer has not gone unnoticed. Again, science-fiction writers were among the first to imagine the repercussions.
The zero Marginal Cost Society, Jeremy Rifkin [pg114]

Thingiverse:

A meeting place for the 3D printing community.
A website that hold open-source, user-created digital design files licensed under both the General Public Licenses (GPL) and Creative Commons Licenses.
The zero Marginal Cost Society, Jeremy Rifkin [pg113]


The Fab Lab Foundation
Formed in 2009 to facilitate and support the growth of the international fab lab network as well as the development of regional capacity-building organizations. The Fab Foundation is a US non-profit 501(c) 3 organization that emerged from MIT’s Center for Bits & Atoms Fab Lab Program. Our mission is to provide access to the tools, the knowledge and the financial means to educate, innovate and invent using technology and digital fabrication to allow anyone to make (almost) anything, and thereby creating opportunities to improve lives and livelihoods around the world. Community organizations, educational institutions and non-profit concerns are our primary beneficiaries.

The Solar Sinter: aqui



The Filabot: tritura e derrete objectos de plástico. O produto resultante pode ser utilizado para imprimir novos objectos.

Imprimir casas: aqui

Fabricantes:

Concept Laser

EOS

The Future of Radical Price

Chris Anderson - Free: The Future of a Radical Price

Hooking consumers into purchasing other goods while giving away free ones:

FREE! WHY $0.00 IS THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy / Biosphere Consciousness

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy

On the concept of freedom: minute 1:03:45
On the concept of power: minute 1:05:01
On the concept of community: 1:05:50

On empathy:
The most civilized societies are the ones that can move empathy to larger reigns.
Here.

"Happiness are the blank pages of History, because they are the periods of harmony"
Hegel


The Belt One Road Inniciative: here

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