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Program for the FutureA Summit & Workshop on Collective Intelligence
2008-12-09
The Commons as a collective intelligence meta-innovation
Mike LinksvayerCreative Commons
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DRMfree
“DRM Voodo”by psd licensed under CC BY 2.0http://flickr.com/photos/psd/1806247462/
http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/publish/news/First-Ever_Economic_Study_Calculates_Dollar_Value_of.shtml also see http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7643
● Legitimate security issues● Protectionism● Politics and power● Security theater and fear-based
responses (driven by all of above, not just legitimate security issues)
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What digital freedoms needed for beneficial collective
intelligence?● Keep same rights online/digitally that we
(should anyway) have offline/IRL● Permit innovation and participation
enabled by digital world even if not possible before (probably follows from above)
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How building the commons (free software, free culture, and
friends) helps
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Security
● Data shows FLOSS is more secure● Security through obscurity doesn’t work● FLOSS encourages a heterogeneous
computing environment● Free software and free culture both
allergic to DRM and other mechanisms that sacrifice security to other goals
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Protectionism
● Peer production undermines policy arguments for protecting knowledge industries
● Free software and free culture both allergic to DRM
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Politics and power
● Free software and culture improve transparency
● ... and the ability of all to participate● Peer production works against
concentrated power — doesn’t require concentrated production structures and lowers barriers to entry
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Security theater and fear
● Access to facts mitigates fear and allows rational evaluation of responses
● Commons work against three previous threats that drive security theater and fear
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Can the success of the (digital) commons alter how we view
freedom and power generally?
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“The gate that has held the movements for equalization of human beings strictly in a dilemma between ineffectiveness and violence has now been opened. The reason is that we have shifted to a zero marginal cost world. As steel is replaced by software, more and more of the value in society becomes non-rivalrous: it can be held by many without costing anybody more than if it is held by a few.”
Eben Moglen
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“If we don’t want to live in a jungle, we must change our attitudes. We must start sending the message that a good citizen is one who cooperates when appropriate, not one who is successful at taking from others.”
Richard Stallman
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i.e., we can form collective intelligences instead of forced collectives ... and still “change
the world”
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Building the commons is key to the future of collective
intelligence● Politicians and corporations are
unimaginative ... they need to see solutions, or they react in fear
● A dominant commons makes many collective stupidity scenarios much less likely
● Beneficial collective intelligence needs universal access to culture, educational resources, research ... in machine-readable form
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Much less Meta ... 2 of the excellent bootstrap(?) tools CC
uses and builds
● Semantic MediaWiki ... turn your MediaWiki into a database and database application platform
● RDFa ... bridging the Semantic Web and the Web we all use
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