Monday, July 17, 2006

Edge: DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier

Edge: DIGITAL MAOISM: The
Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier:

YOCHAI BENKLER
Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Author, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

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Constructive criticism from YOCHAI BENKLER "Networked-based, distributed, social production, both individual and cooperative, offers a new system, alongside markets, firms, governments, and traditional non-profits, within which individuals can engage in information, knowledge, and cultural production. This new modality of production offers new challenges, and new opportunities. It is the polar opposite of Maoism. It is based on enhanced individual capabilities, employing widely distributed computation, communication, and storage in the hands of individuals with insight, motivation, and time, and deployed at their initiative through technical and social networks, either individually or in loose voluntary associations."

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