Re: [P2P-F] [Metacurrency_Project] Open Source Venture: Software Radios
Dear Dante, thanks for sharing these resources with Paul, very specifically dealing with open and distributed manufacturing is: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Manufacturing Michel On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson < [email protected]> wrote:
Hi Paul, and all,
nice to see some resonance.
excerpt from your message : * * *"Up to this point almost all open-source projects have been exactly that, open-SOURCE, as in source code. I see no reason why this model can't be applied to the creation of a real-world physical product dropped shipped to people around the world."* * * Btw, do you know about the p2p foundation clearing house to various approaches similar to the one you describe
wiki : http://p2pfoundation.net
about 7000 pages or more, including pages such as
http://p2pfoundation.net/Money_and_Peer_Production http://p2pfoundation.net/The_Political_Economy_of_Peer_Production http://p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Production
also electronics - since it was mentioned :
http://p2pfoundation.net/Product_Hacking
blog : http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
lists : http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Foundation_Email_Lists
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examples of physical world implementations :
( or on appropedia wiki : http://www.appropedia.org/Open_Source_Ecology ; and p2pf wiki : http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Ecology )
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On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Paul Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm new to the list, but not new to these ideas. I've been dreaming of the day that networked systems would be used to create grass-roots, bottoms-up, decentralized, ad-hoc, egalitarian, open-source economic systems for a long, long time. I'm very happy to find this group!
I'm also glad to see John Robb take the initiative in creating an open-source venture for "Picture This". I like it!
NEXT STEP:
I think a real test of seeing how robust these new paradigm is, is if we can create an actual physical, shippable product.
Up to this point almost all open-source projects have been exactly that, open-SOURCE, as in source code. I see no reason why this model can't be applied to the creation of a real-world physical product dropped shipped to people around the world.
To me that ideal product would be a Software Radio.
TA software Radio is a device that can dynamically seek out whatever spectrum is available at the moment to communicate with any other equivalent device. This is paradigm busting and revolutionary for several reasons. The primary one being there is more need for carriers (i.er. AT&T, Verizon, Spring, etc.). Any software radio device can communicate with any other software radio device without interfering with existing spectrum use. Each device is a transceiver. This means each device become a node in an ad-hoc, open-source network, without the need for a central carrier. These would first take off in dense urban environments, but over time even the most remote village in the world could hook into the network. This is radical because it would bypass not only all the major carriers but all the major internet providers as well. This is the new internet that everyone hopes will evolve, and the creation of the Software Radio is the key component necessary to make it work.
Like the fax machine, one fax is worthless, two becomes meaningful, and thousands become powerful. The same economies of scale apply here, but with one difference. Since a software radio can receive and transmit on any radio frequency, this means the device can pick any broadcast on any spectrum - AM/FM, Ham Radio, CB, TV, WiFi, WiMax, 3G, 4G. Do you see the power of this? So if even if a person has no other device they can transmit to, they can still receive internet, radio and TV all on one device.
The question then becomes one of legality. This is a big one, because all the incumbents would be put out of business by this technology. So you can bet that if there not laws on the books now to stop this, attempts to make laws outlawing it will soon come to pass, unless market saturation is reach before then. I think the democratizing power of this technology is too great to not push to develop this technology as soon as possible. As soon as people can see the power of these tools the sooner it will reach market saturation, and public attitudes will push for legality. Should they become illegal under totalitarian governments at least the technology will be out there for people to build their own.
As for the practicalities of manufacturing and fulfillment, all of those systems are already in place. There are thousands of prototype and manufacturing companies in China ready to take our seed ideas and turn them into physical, shippable products, drop shipping them off to anyone in the world. Creating online storefronts and affiliates systems for marketing are already being used to great success.
The potential market for these devices in the coming years could reach the trillion dollar mark. Those who take the initiative now in creating the first consumer ready Software Radio's will find themselves becoming among the first open-source venture billionaires.
Any takers?
Cheers,
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