[P2P-F] a new type of platform?

Wed Jul 27 08:31:01 CEST 2011

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Nicholas Roberts
<niccolo.roberts at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> why does the OSE exclude actually existing open-source, public domain
> technologies i.e. crafts such as wood work, knitting and fabrics, gardening,
> fermenting, cooking, animal husbandry etc?
>
> these largely oral traditions defy easy modelling, try and do a Blender file
> for a mandella garden or a food forest ? there is a wealth of traditional
> knowledge that is being lost and has substantially more value than a top
> down techno-utopian benevolent dictatorship

In fairness, OSE has an on-site permaculture operation.  To the extent
that OSE focuses on computerized machine tool technologies, it would
probably be nice for it to establish stronger ties with those
occupying craft niches in the larger network ecology or division of
labor (e.g. the craft community at Mountain View, Ark.).

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