The current market for electronic products depends on planned obsolescence: old products quickly become outdated and unfashionable. But extending the life of our electronic devices helps to address the e-waste problem. Project Cybersyn showed that it is possible to create a cutting-edge system using technologies that are not state-of-the-art. It demonstrates that the future can be tied to the technological past.
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Really nice article by @ntnsndr on the possibilities of coops in the digital space (and what they’re already achieving). Quality rather than unnecessary growth; data privacy; federation rather than centralization; harnessing ideas like blockchain for trust; and funding new ventures through cooperative means. Exciting times. (h/t @Matt_Noyes)
I find Project Cybersyn fascinating as a piece of history of how one country tried to use advanced technology to solve the problem of socialist central planning.
Are there any good histories (or thought experiments) of the advanced use of technology for more anarchist, less hierarchical (non-market, non-state) organisation?
Over at social.coop, we’ve recently started a reading group, and the first book we’ll be reading is “Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals: Cooperative Alternatives beyond Markets and States” by Derek Wall.
These are my initial thoughts on my expectations of the book.
Continue reading “Thoughts before starting Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals”
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Interesting to see a reference to “municipal” socialism from JC. Also interesting to see the top-level intervention when a local authority is doing something dodgy. I agree with the sentiment of the intervention but how municipalist is it?
It’s from 2013, but it is a positive story of workers taking over the factory and turning it into something with positive environmental and social impact. And while I can’t read Italian from what I can understand they are still active, despite some attempts to shut them down. http://rimaflow.it/