Towards a

cooperative, small

scale, local, p2p

production Future

@meedabyte

Summit

Paris, 26 May 2012

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Once we used to live in a very different relation with resources

And that wasn’t at the time of Stanley Kubrick’s movies

Impressive, isn’t it? and this…

industrial society started

consumer society started

…led to the peak-resources

thing we all talk about

and everyone thinks we can solve using alternative, renewable resources

“It is wholly a confusion of ideas to suppose that

the economical use of fuel is equivalent to a diminished

consumption. The very contrary is the truth.”

William Stanley Jevons

a British economist and logician.

http://www.sustainable-lifestyles.eu/fileadmin/images/content/D1.1_Baseline_Report_short.pdf

So What?!...

Is

prosperity unsustainable?

...

Prosperity?

Prosperity?

Prosperity?

Eudaimonics

Umair Haque Author, columnist & economist

MEDIOCRITY

IS unsustainable!

The “efficiency” of large scale production

Kevin A. Carson Social and political theorist

Good news:

scale is

almost no

more needed!

Thanks to tools like these

Democratization of production

Design becomes P2P/Co-Design

The P2P product cycle emerges

Creation and production *tribalize*

Consumption becomes

economically and emotionally supporting

culturally adjacent crafters, artists or

creatives

Funding a gaming legend

From Tim Schafer’s Double Fine Adventure

Kickstarter page

The emerging role of Peers

Mass production: a passive

*consumer* role

Crowdfunding: gets closer

to the creator

Co-creation: becomes part of

the creation process

The sunset of the lone genius

Creation as a

cooperative act

Codesigning

the future:

What do we

need?

Platforms to collaborate on HW design

A modular approach

(eases contribution)

A new concept of knowledge ownership

A Social form *currency*

Building a universal set of common designs

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Creating a new process

Joe Justice – Team Wikispeed

Software Architect and Manufacturing Innovator

That is up to more efficient

Distributed, Liquid Manufacturing

How does it look like?

A “Productables” inventory Global

A decentralized production hub network Localized, on demand and Community based

Less of this

Much more of this

In places like this Abandoned factory in Lurgan (UK)

Here Comes:

The

Cooperation

Advantage instead of the competitive one

Still a role for Businesses?

As long as: - enables ecosystems - allows value xchange

Switching - from monolithic to platform - from profit to value creation

Cooperation vs Competitive advantage

Building platforms vs Building

product

Solution of Gaps vs Search of

Scale

Distributed value

creation vs

Centralized profit

generation

Radically fast innovation thanks to hackable products

vs

Innovation resistant

products and long term

capital depreciation

Will this happen?

Traditional Capital will change route (no sufficient risk and profit)

The p2p opportunity remains open to the community

Takeouts:

The Future

landscape

Resilient communities and decentralization

John Robb

Author, blogger and entrepreneur – Global Guerrillas

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Jobs are Obsolete

Douglas Rushkoff

Media theorist, writer, columnist

We need a new form of currency

The High Road vs the Low Road?

From Compete

to Cooperate:

Cooperation is not yet another

business model

a special thanks to: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nextconference/3504568830

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deepblue66/7118337149/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/neetsandre/3013853280/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deepblue66/7118337149

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thehenryford/6263721931

http://www.flickr.com/photos/boni_face/4123599960/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegray/5630708345

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maltman23/6808853

http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshop/2833758116

http://www.flickr.com/photos/solsken/5636599001

http://www.flickr.com/photos/slinky2000/2175943057

http://www.flickr.com/photos/raster/2561289888

http://www.flickr.com/photos/webvisionsevent/5787414789

http://www.flickr.com/photos/59937401@N07

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eselat/3969402004

http://www.flickr.com/photos/exfordy/3156664080

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wojtekmejor/2458228855

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nkarim/7061561113

Plus a special thanks to Michael Clinard / Photographer www.michaelclinard.com

(for letting me use the awesome Joe Justice Picture)

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