Ming the MechanicAn old rigid civilization is reluctantly dying. Something new, open, free and exciting is waking up.Complicated and Complex- June 29, 2008 In everyday usage, we often use "complicated" and "complex" interchangably. Which makes it a little bit hard to discuss complexity. I mean, the "good" kind of complexity that you find in nature, for example. We could say that we need the scientific definition of complexity, but science has unfortunately come up with at least 32 different definitions, that don't agree with each other. But if we cut through the confusion a bit, something like this would be workable:Complicated is when something..http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001928.htm Peer material production- June 20, 2008 From P2P Foundation, Raoul Victor talking about how a Peer to Peer society might look like. One of the hard parts would be how to get from a capitalistic production system to a P2P system, presumably not based on money.From a human point of view, the efficiency of a mode of production is measured by its capacity to allow the human material needs to be satisfied. Capitalism has created an extraordinary network (the world market) allowing existent needs to find, some times at the other side of...http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/__show_article/_a000010-001927.htm |