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The Networked World

PSI 2007 Kaido Kikkas. The Networked World. This document uses the GNU Free Documentation License (v1.2 or newer). The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler. no noncommercial car manufacturers or voluntary steel foundries Yet science FLOSS software public media as most reliable.

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The Networked World

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  1. PSI 2007 Kaido Kikkas The Networked World This document uses the GNU Free Documentation License (v1.2 or newer).

  2. The Wealth of Networks by Yochai Benkler • no noncommercial car manufacturers or voluntary steel foundries • Yet • science • FLOSS software • public media as most reliable

  3. Three important things • information • knowledge • culture • were temporarily shadowed by capital, money and profit, but are returning • With the coming of the Internet, industrial information economy => networked information economy

  4. New economy • Decentralised individual action • Distributed, nonmarket mechanisms • Inexpensive and ubiquitous computing • Widening base of production

  5. Three factors • Information production is inherently more suitable for nonmarket strategies than industrial production • Rapid spread of nonmarket production, widening base • effective, large-scale cooperative efforts in peer production of information, knowledge, and culture

  6. The Econodwarfs are puzzled • What's going on? • Benkler: "Human beings are, and always have been, diversely motivated beings. We act instrumentally, but also noninstrumentally. We act for material gain, but also for psychological well-being and gratification, and for social connectedness." • Essentially the Linus' Law!

  7. Motivation • The Linus' Law: • survival • social position • entertainment • Examples: Bill Gates, Akihito • ct Wozniak's formula: H = F3

  8. The network bonus • The networked economy increases the practical production capabilities: • it improves their capacity to do more for and by themselves • it enhances their capacity to do more in loose commonality with others, without being constrained to organize their relationship through a price system or in traditional hierarchical models of social and economic organization • it improves the capacity of individuals to do more in formal organizations that operate outside the market sphere.

  9. Apples vs novels • rival vs nonrival goods • public good – not produced if priced at their marginal cost • information as both input and output of itself => traditional IP can either be ineffective or counterproductive due to attaching extra costs

  10. Some examples • Linux • Wikipedia • Second Life • Slashdot • Project Gutenberg • MUME • distributed supercomputing (SETI@Home) • P2P (incl. Skype)

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