[P2P-F] Open System

Sat Jul 30 12:22:44 CEST 2011

A long read, hope you take the time!

To clarify; I'm approaching this from a technological perspective  
purely out of strategic reasons and time constraints. While it would  
be reasonable to have a broad societal discussing regarding new  
political models, there's no time as I see it. The tiger and many  
other species are probably already beyond saving due to infertility.  
This is my main concern.

The current economical model, capitalism, is based on the fact that we  
needed to mount up large amount of capital to collectively afford  
industry.

With recent developments - like OSE, RepRap and Arduino - industry is  
moving to open and small scale. They are prototypical but requires  
only attention to become viable.

With industry smaller in scale and easier to set up, capitalism will  
fail. Small initiatives is and will always be faster and more creative  
than the behemoths we see today.

While many intellectuals have advocated free market economy as the  
best economical model, I'd say that open market economy is closer to  
reality. It only requires one company in each industry to open their  
economy and it will become the new way to compete. All things open.

One way to achieve this would be to through democracy open up state  
owned car and aeroplane factories and share manufacturing know-how  
with the open movement. But as you know, the global political climate  
today is far from constructive, so a faster path is to use what open  
information there is to achieve this.

There is one crucial standard, called JDF (short for Job Definition  
Format). It's mainly intended for the printing industry, but it  
contains all relevant methodology needed for any industry. And as the  
inkjet-printing technology is maturing, its uses are broader than just  
ink on paper; it's chemicals on a surface and could also be used to  
print solar cells, biological cells, you name it. That's open  
chemistry and in effect open pharmaceutics among other things.

Production methodology is semantics, removing the names for what we  
call things and looking at it from a purely technological perspective,  
JDF can be used as a basis for all industries.

So, what I'm trying to say that the most effective way to change  
society for the "better" is to change the foundation; economy. After  
that, new models for education, healthcare, etc will have to be sorted  
out.

When the open movement achieves the milestone of creating food and  
housing cheaper than the current economic model, open and free, a new  
society is born as these are the two fundamental needs of any human  
being aside from freedom of thought.

At least I would choose free soy and collective housing to be able to  
work for the collective instead of what we refer to as "luxury" -  
Mindless consumption on a dying planet.

With a community owned communication and information system, all this  
can be achieved in "no time". Because that's what society is, a  
systematic way of finding and collecting food and building shelters.  
Less is more.

Best regards,

Rasmus

http://opensourceecology.org
http://reprap.org
http://www.arduino.cc
http://www.cip4.org

On 30 jul 2011, at 08.58, Michel Bauwens wrote:

> Dear Rasmus,
>
> Thanks for contacting us. I'm sharing your request for feedback  
> regarding Ubuntu Online, with the ContactCon and Open Manufacturing  
> lists, as they more of a technical bent,
>
> http://www.ubuntuonline.me
>
> Michel
>
> First; I'm very glad I found your Foundation. A relief to see that
> there are other in the world that are concerned about the society!
>
> My reason for joining; I co-founded a printing company some years back
> and built a complete production management software for us. In the
> browser, based on open source software and standards only.
>
> After that I created a prototype web based design application to forgo
> the commerical alternatives to give everyone the possibility to  
> design.
>
> I realised that because we have a revenue model based in the physical
> world we don't have to rely on advertising, subscriptions and
> transactions.
>
> While it might sound like nothing, I firmly belive it to be the
> fastest and least destructive way of re-achieving an open and free
> Internet. When the physical industries realise they can use only open
> source; they will. And sponsor development of all things open source.
>
> Instead of trying to recreate the Internet, I believe that it would be
> best to create a global P2P web based OS. The Internet is in it's
> essence a collection of static and dynamic applications, just like a
> desktop OS. So the next step for me was naturally to create a web
> based operating system since it's technologically possible.
>
> In the long run, this would mean that open hardware initiatives would
> have access to the same production management software as everyone  
> else.
>
> I chose the name Ubuntu Online because I believe Ubuntu to be the best
> of open source initiatives. Mainly because it marries the "old world"
> with the new.
>
> http://www.ubuntuonline.me
>
> It's still a prototype and the description is rough, but I'm working
> on it daily.
>
> In an even longer run, it could be replaced with a completely new kind
> of system based on all open information and communication systems.
>
> I'd appriciate any feedback and reflections on the matter!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rasmus Wikman
>
>
>
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