[P2P-F] Fwd: ID3 Publishes New Book, "From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond"

Michel Bauwens michel at p2pfoundation.net
Sat Aug 23 15:52:22 CEST 2014 

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Subject: ID3 Publishes New Book, "From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond"
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              *ID3 of Boston Releases New Book on Digital Identity, Trust
and Data*
*From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond:*
*The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in a Digital Society*

Anthology probes the rise of digital currencies,
self-organized governance and
secure online identity
                     ID3
<http://idcubed.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a1a095d0301b6e82661864753&id=a19d0a529c&e=2fda032601>,
the Boston-based nonprofit affiliated with the M.I.T. Media Lab, is pleased
to announce the release of a collection of fifteen essays that explores a
new generation of digital technologies that are re-imagining the very
foundations of identity, governance, trust and social organization.

     The fifteen essays of the book stake out the foundations of a new
future – a future of open Web standards and data commons, a society of
decentralized autonomous organizations, and a world of trustworthy digital
currencies and self-organized and expressive communities like Burning Man.
A recurrent theme in all of the essays is the huge, untapped potential for
self-organized, distributed governance on open platforms.

     The book was edited by Dr. John H. Clippinger, cofounder and executive
director of ID3, and David Bollier, an Editor at ID3 who is also an author,
blogger and scholar who studies the commons.  The book is published by ID3
in association with Off the Common Books, and is available in print and
ebook formats from Amazon.com and Off the Common Books.

     Among the contributors to *From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond *are
Alex “Sandy” Pentland of the M.I.T. Human Dynamics Laboratory; Dr.
Clippinger; former FCC Chairman Reed E. Hundt; long-time IBM strategist
Irving Wladawksy-Berger; Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Hirshberg;
monetary system expert Bernard Lietaer; journalist and author Jonathan
Ledgard; and H-Farm cofounder Maurizio Rossi.

     More information about *From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond *can be
found at the ID3 website, at https://idcubed.org/bitcoin-burning-man-beyond.
<http://idcubed.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=a1a095d0301b6e82661864753&id=aa0739b708&e=2fda032601>
The book is available in paperback, Kindle editions and free pdf download.
Themes from the book were featured at a recent conference at the M.I.T.
Media Lab co-hosted with ID3, "The Ecology of Digital Assets:  Identity,
Trust and Data,"
<http://idcubed.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a1a095d0301b6e82661864753&id=df3e5fe4b8&e=2fda032601>
on July 30 and 31, 2014.

     The book explores such cutting-edge concepts as evolvable digital
contracts that could supplant conventional legal agreements; smartphone
currencies that could help Africans meet their economic needs more
effective; the growth of the commodity-backed Ven currency; and new types
of “solar currencies” that borrow techniques from Bitcoin to enable more
efficient, cost-effective solar generation and sharing by homeowners.

     A chapter on the 28-year history of Burning Man, the week-long
encampment in the Nevada desert, traces the arc of experimentation and
innovation in large communities devising new forms of self-governance.

     In addition to explorations of self-governance, *From Bitcoin to
Burning Man and Beyond *introduces the path-breaking software platform that
ID3 has developed called "Open Mustard Seed," or OMS.  The just-released
open source program enables the rise of new types of trusted, self-healing
digital institutions on open networks, which in turn will make possible new
sorts of privacy-friendly social ecosystems.

     "OMS is an integrated, open source package of programs that lets
people collect and share personal information in secure, and transparent
and accountable ways, enabling authentic, trusted social and economic
relationships to flourish," said Dr. John H. Clippinger, executive director
of ID3, an acronym for the Institute for Institutional Innovation and
Data-Driven Design.  "The software builds individual privacy, security and
trusted exchange into the very design of the system.  In effect, OMS
represents a new authentication, privacy and sharing layer for the
Internet," said Clippinger " -- a new way to share personal information
selectively and securely, without access by unauthorized third parties."

     ID3 was cofounded by Dr. John H. Clippinger and M.I.T. Professor Alex
“Sandy” Pentland in 2011 to research new software systems to protect
personal information and develop Open Mustard Seed (OMS).  In addition to
directing ID3, Dr. John H. Clippinger is Research Scientist at the M.I.T.
Media Lab’s Human Dynamics Group.  He is a serial entrepreneur, technology
innovator, and Co-Director of The Law Lab at the Berkman Center for
Internet & Society at Harvard University, and is the author of *A Crowd of
One: The Future of Individual Identity *(2007) and *The Biology of Business*
(1998).

     Professor Pentland directs M.I.T.’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and the
M.I.T. Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, and co-leads the World Economic
Forum Big Data and Personal Data Initiatives.  His research group and
entrepreneurship program have spun off more than thirty companies to date.
In 2012 *Forbes* named Pentland one of the seven most powerful data
scientists in the world.

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*For more information about the book, contact John Henry Clippinger at
johnhenry /at/ idcubed.org <http://idcubed.org> (or 617-306-8239), or David
Bollier at contact /at/ idcubed.org <http://idcubed.org>.*

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