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I’m pleased to introduce Peer-to-Peer Digital Networking as a free digital book, and to invite public and private feedback on its further development.
For years, I’ve been looking beyond the technical and economic limits which we’ve developed during our fast few decades of personal computing and digital networking. I’ve looked at co-creative potentials envisioned by Internet pioneers, and added ideas on the basic nature of communication and community. This book reflects all of that research– but in most ways, it’s just a beginning.
We can rebuild communications technologies (tools, techniques and systems) to foster the emergence of communities and inter-communities of autonomous peers. It’s an immense challenge, however, because we must displace corporations which marry communities to software platforms based on financially extractive models.
We need to have control of our communications infrastructure, and Greg Cassel has written a book outlining the current situation and how to proceed from here. The book is a free download and Greg wants your comments and suggestions...