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  Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:29:04 -0500 (EST) 
  From: Evan Korth  
  To: Computers_and_society_announcements@cs.nyu.edu, women-in-computing 
 , ACM chapter  
  Subject: [Computers_and_society_announcements] Michel Bauwens, Sunday 
 7:00pm, 
 "Network Civilization: Peer-to-Peer and the Rise of Green Capitalism" 
  
  The last talk of this semester's Computers and Society series will be held 
  in room 109 WWH (251 Mercer) this Sunday, November 23rd at 7:00pm.  I hope 
  you can join us. 
  
  e. 
  
  Michel Bauwens is an active writer, researcher and conference speaker on 
  the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. He is the 
  founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in 
  collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of 
  peer production, governance, and property. He has been an analyst for the 
  United States Information Agency, knowledge manager for British Petroleum, 
  eBusiness Strategy Manager for Belgacom, as well as an internet 
  entrepreneur in his home country of Belgium. He has co-produced the 3-hour 
  TV documentary Technocalyps with Frank Theys, and co-edited the two-volume 
  book on anthropology of digital society with Salvino Salvaggio. Michel is 
  currently Primavera Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and 
  external expert at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008). He 
  currently lives with his family in Chiang Mai, Thailand. 
  
  About the talk: 
  
  Network Civilization: Peer-to-Peer and the Rise of Green Capitalism 
  
  Just as the three quarters of oil engineers now agree that Peak Oil is in 
  sight within the next decade (after that, oil production can only 
  decline), can we also posit that we may have reached a moment of Peak 
  Hierarchy, a moment in history in which it is no longer large centralized 
  organizations that are most efficient or productive, but rather those that 
  are organized as distributed networks and can draw on peer producting 
  communities? 
  
  This is the thesis explored by the P2P Foundation, a global network of 
  researchers investigating the emergence of peer production, governance and 
  property, showing how this new 'hyperproductive' mode of producing value 
  is out-competing and out-collaborating traditional organizations. Such a 
  change will have huge implications for society, business, and education. 
  The election victory of Barack Obama, and his program of green capitalism, 
  opens up, because it cannot succeed without huge strides in participation, 
  the possibility of a 'high road' transition towards a peer to peer 
  society, based on the voluntary aggregation of productive communities 
  united around the creation of common value. 
  
  How would our society function, if Linux and Wikipedia were not just 
  emergent, but the model of a new type of institutions residing in the core 
  of our economy and politics? 
  
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