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Essay of the Day: The Transition From Supply Chains To Ecosystems | P2P Foundation

Ecosystems are defined as the third pillar of organizational theory, and they need to be addressed differently from markets and hierarchies

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Essay of the Day: Transforming the Productive Base of the Economy Through Distributed Manufacturing | P2P Foundation

Essay of the Day: Transforming the Productive Base of the Economy Through Distributed Manufacturing | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
* Article: Transforming the Productive Base of the Economy Through the Open Design Commons and Distributed Manufacturing. By George Dafermos. Journal of Peer Production, 2015 From a special issue of the JPP journal, dedicated to the FLOK Society Project proposals, which are now continued by the Commons Transition Project. Summary: “This policy document examines the …
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Essay of the Day: On the Socio-Political Potentialities of Experimental Productive Alternatives | P2P Foundation

Essay of the Day: On the Socio-Political Potentialities of Experimental Productive Alternatives | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
* Article: On the socio-political potentialities of experimental productive alternatives. Yannick Rumpala. Paper presented at the inter-disciplinary workshop on “Political Action, Resilience and Solidarity” (18th-19th September 2014, King’s College London). Two cases were presented: “The RepRap 3D printer and open-source hardware developed on contributory bases, and local initiatives in food production, such as “Incredible Edible” …
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P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Essay of the Day: Additive Manufacturing as Global Remanufacturing of Politics

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Essay of the Day: Additive Manufacturing as Global Remanufacturing of Politics | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

In order not to yield to technological messianism, we should however be aware of the obstacles that the diffusion of these technologies is likely to meet, starting with those posed by the various actors who have opposite interests to their development, and those resulting from ecological constraints and the availability of resources.

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Essay of the Day: Quantifying the Value of Open Source Hardware Development | P2P Foundation

Essay of the Day: Quantifying the Value of Open Source Hardware Development | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
* Article: Pearce, J.M. (2015) Quantifying the Value of Open Source Hardware Development. Modern Economy, 6, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/me.2015.61001. open access From the abstract: “With the maturation of digital manufacturing technologies like 3-D printing, a new paradigm is emerging of distributed manufacturing in both scientific equipment and consumer goods. Hardware released under free licenses is …
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Research: Economic and Energy Consumption Aspects of Additive Manufacturing | P2P Foundation

Research: Economic and Energy Consumption Aspects of Additive Manufacturing | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
* PhD Thesis: Economic aspects of additive manufacturing: benefits, costs and energy consumption. Martin Baumers. Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University, 2012. From the abstract: “Additive Manufacturing (AM) refers to the use of a group of technologies capable of combining material layer-by-layer to manufacture geometrically complex products in a single digitally controlled process step, entirely …
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Essay of the Day: On the Socio-Political Potentialities of Experimental Productive Alternatives | P2P Foundation

Essay of the Day: On the Socio-Political Potentialities of Experimental Productive Alternatives | P2P Foundation | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
* Article: On the socio-political potentialities of experimental productive alternatives. Yannick Rumpala. Paper presented at the inter-disciplinary workshop on “Political Action, Resilience and Solidarity” (18th-19th September 2014, King’s College London). Two cases were presented: “The RepRap 3D printer and open-source hardware developed on contributory bases, and local initiatives in food production, such as “Incredible Edible” …
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P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Essay of the Day: Reproducing Wealth Through 3D Printers

“This paper reflects a long tradition of utopian thought in engineering, a tradition in which the progressive application of human reason to nature is projected to make the market obsolete. This promise comes in at least two versions. One tendency, epitomised by the ‘red cyberneticists’ in the Soviet Union, primarily objects to the irrationality of the price mechanism, and strives to replace the market with computers as a means of allocating resources (Dyer-Witheford, 2013). The second tendency, to which Rep-rap project arguably belongs, looks forward to the day when wealth is so abundant that scarcity will have been superseded, and markets with it. 

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