Industrial information economy
stark bifurcation between producers and consumers
june 2002 – deep discomfort in Computing community
4.5 million users of SETI@Home outdid the supecomputers
radicall decentralization of computation, storage and capacity
we are in a situation where we have the tools to cocmm
the most important inputs in to the core economic activities of the most advanced exonomies, are widely distributed by populate
commons based production becomeing more important
commercial and non commercial
imp because it decentralizes the authority to act – and place it where capacity to act is
Peer production – large # of people cooperating
Free and Open Source Software
apache
wikipedia
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