The Internet enables like-minded people to find each other and work together. I started this blog to begin to understand how this ability to form ad-hoc teams information-sharing teams was revolutionizing media.
Now in an essay titled, ”The Political Economy of Peer Production,” Michel Bauwens takes the revolutionary potential of the Web to a Utopian extreme. Bauwens, a European author teaching in Thailand, argues that peer-to-peer production systems – like Linux and Wikipedia – allow many [...]