Re: <nettime> Review: Michel Bauwens and The Promise Of The

[morlockelloi@yahoo.com]

If "community" means 100-200 people, the size of clan/tribe that 
persisted long enough for brains to get hardwired to it, there is no 
need for any technology. Everyone knows everything that needs to be 
known about everyone.

Beyond this size, some technology is required, and today that means 
silicon, transistors, "devices", radios, PHYs, wired/fibered 
infrastructure. All of this is highly centralized today (there are fewer 
than 10 semi fabs on the planet that matter, for example.) A clan 
"owning" this today is a pipe dream.

The only realistic direction to re-enable the brain-circuit-friendly 
community system is to have expertise and means to make chips in every 
single community. The probability of this happening is kind of low, though.

The choices are stark, but that is not rationale to use lipstick on this 
pig.


On 4/13/16, 3:33, Jaromil wrote:

> There are qualitative solutions to the problem and they cannot be
> automated, but only aided, adopted, appropriated and run by
> communities, bottom-up. They are also based on ownership of production
> means and political decision-making processes that include "workers".

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