[P2P-F] post-ContactCon event in Bay Area: The future of peer production at the Institute for the Future, San Francisco, Oct 24

Sat Sep 24 09:59:35 CEST 2011

Dear friends,

thanks for eventually spreading the word about this amongst your friends in
California:

More info at http://michelbauwens.eventbrite.com/

Institute for the Future (IFTF) and Shareable Magazine invite you to join us
for a evening of discussion with Michel
Bauwens<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bauwens>,
Founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer
Alternatives<http://p2pfoundation.net/>,
about the promise and challenges of the emerging peer-to-peer society.

Michel's basic thesis is the dominant Fordist mode of managing society has
run out of steam and that a new technology enabled social forms are allowing
a hyper-productive peer-to-peer mode to emerge. The new mode is exemplified
by the open hardware and software movements, the peer created online
encyclopedia Wikipedia, and the microfinance social enterprise Kiva.  The
peer to peer mode places power to create and manage resources directly
in citizens' hands.  Michel contends that in this shift is the opportunity
to create a radically more democratic and sustainable global society, and
just in time as governments and large institutions everywhere are failing
people and planet.  Is the shift to peer to peer a powerful answer to global
civilization's most pressing problems or just a means to extend what already
exists? This is the question that IFTF's Executive Director Marina Gorbis
and Shareable Magazine's Neal Gorenflo will explore in discussion with the
world's pre-eminent peer to peer intellectual, archivist, and activist.
Drinks and appetizers will be served.

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