Dear friends,<br><br>thanks for eventually spreading the word about this amongst your friends in California:<br><br><p>More info at <a href="http://michelbauwens.eventbrite.com/">http://michelbauwens.eventbrite.com/</a></p>
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</span></span><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="vevent"><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">Institute for the
Future (IFTF) and <span class="il">Shareable</span> Magazine invite you
to join us for a evening of discussion with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Bauwens">Michel Bauwens</a>,
Founder of the <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net/">Foundation for Peer
to Peer Alternatives</a>, about the promise and challenges of the
emerging peer-to-peer society. </font></span></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font color="#222222" face="arial,
sans-serif" size="1"><font size="2">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. </font></font><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif" size="2">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.</font></p>
<font size="2">Drinks and appetizers
will be served. </font><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a> - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br>
<br>Connect: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.ning.com" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.ning.com</a>; Discuss: <a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank">http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation</a><div>
<br>Updates: <a href="http://del.icio.us/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://del.icio.us/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br>
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