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A Peer to Peer Expert to Inspire Me
Have you ever heard of Peer to Peer Technologies? Maybe you remember hearing the expression back in the days when Napster was still a controversial P2P-sharing software, well maybe you even ARE using a form of P2P technology without even using it!
What are Peer to Peer Technologies?
First, let me define what a Peer to Peer network is: a network architecture composed of participants that make a portion of their resources (such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth)
directly available to other network participants, without the need for
central coordination instances (such as servers or stable hosts). To go back to the Napster (or even Torrent) example, the files you are downloading are not hosted on a server (like they usually are when you are surfing the Internet) but directly on someone else's computer. The application allows people to publish, search and request files, but these files are not hosted by the application - they are merely channelled through it.
So what are P2P Technologies now? Well, they are every technology that reproduces that pattern: a contact between two people, a shared resource or output and little or no use of centralization. P2P means collaboration, exchange, direct participation, commons, openness and free knowledge. It's about new forms of production, governance and property. Heard of intentional communities? That's P2P too. Hitchhiking? Yeah yeah, P2P too. Nothing invented. Well, not much. So why would one care about studying P2P Technologies?
Well, heard about Creative Commons ? That's P2P innovation for sure. Imagine that suddently, the wh*** concept of intellectual property shifted from "I give it all away" and "I keep it all to myself" to "I give it away to certain conditions" - and these conditions are varied: give me credit, do not modify, don't use commercially, keep any derivative work under a similar license... Endless possibilities. A revolution in collective ownership.
You don't believe me yet? Oh, maybe I forgot to tell you about Wikipedia. You might have heard about it. A contributive encyclopedia. Everybody adding to it, editing it, every day. For free. Because they care, they wanna share, they feel stronger together.
That's just a start...
Creative social innovators are researching Peer to Peer technologies in order to solve practical society problems, enhance participative democracy, create wealth and transform society. I came to know about it through the wiki of the Peer to Peer Foundation.
I had heard about it through friends since a while, I registered to the mailing list and sorted it in a specially tagged area of my Gmail.. but haven't had the time to really.. get at it. People floating around the network sometimes speak too much like scientist, it hurts your head. But as I am living with very little money, I live a P2P life. I believe this is saner than living the classical capitalistic model. I love being interdependent. I love being able to exchange without having anything to start with. You can't get into debt by reading Wikipedia, and even better, by sharing physical resources properly, one can generate way less waste. Everything can become optimized.
I believe it to be the beginning of a social revolution.
My social innovation hero
I chose to get in touch with Michel Bauwens via Facebook. Hell, we've got already six friends in common, so this
isn't just random. I was supposed to get at it. Get closer. Get more
personal. I sent him a request, and explained the Evoke thing. I also sent a request to join the p2pfoundation ning community.
Now all I hope is that he doesn't ask me to read the 354 unread digests from the newsletter sitting in my Gmail... ;)
What are Peer to Peer Technologies?
First, let me define what a Peer to Peer network is: a network architecture composed of participants that make a portion of their resources (such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth)
directly available to other network participants, without the need for
central coordination instances (such as servers or stable hosts). To go back to the Napster (or even Torrent) example, the files you are downloading are not hosted on a server (like they usually are when you are surfing the Internet) but directly on someone else's computer. The application allows people to publish, search and request files, but these files are not hosted by the application - they are merely channelled through it.
So what are P2P Technologies now? Well, they are every technology that reproduces that pattern: a contact between two people, a shared resource or output and little or no use of centralization. P2P means collaboration, exchange, direct participation, commons, openness and free knowledge. It's about new forms of production, governance and property. Heard of intentional communities? That's P2P too. Hitchhiking? Yeah yeah, P2P too. Nothing invented. Well, not much. So why would one care about studying P2P Technologies?
Well, heard about Creative Commons ? That's P2P innovation for sure. Imagine that suddently, the wh*** concept of intellectual property shifted from "I give it all away" and "I keep it all to myself" to "I give it away to certain conditions" - and these conditions are varied: give me credit, do not modify, don't use commercially, keep any derivative work under a similar license... Endless possibilities. A revolution in collective ownership.
You don't believe me yet? Oh, maybe I forgot to tell you about Wikipedia. You might have heard about it. A contributive encyclopedia. Everybody adding to it, editing it, every day. For free. Because they care, they wanna share, they feel stronger together.
That's just a start...
Creative social innovators are researching Peer to Peer technologies in order to solve practical society problems, enhance participative democracy, create wealth and transform society. I came to know about it through the wiki of the Peer to Peer Foundation.
I had heard about it through friends since a while, I registered to the mailing list and sorted it in a specially tagged area of my Gmail.. but haven't had the time to really.. get at it. People floating around the network sometimes speak too much like scientist, it hurts your head. But as I am living with very little money, I live a P2P life. I believe this is saner than living the classical capitalistic model. I love being interdependent. I love being able to exchange without having anything to start with. You can't get into debt by reading Wikipedia, and even better, by sharing physical resources properly, one can generate way less waste. Everything can become optimized.
I believe it to be the beginning of a social revolution.
My social innovation hero
I chose to get in touch with Michel Bauwens via Facebook. Hell, we've got already six friends in common, so this
isn't just random. I was supposed to get at it. Get closer. Get more
personal. I sent him a request, and explained the Evoke thing. I also sent a request to join the p2pfoundation ning community.
Now all I hope is that he doesn't ask me to read the 354 unread digests from the newsletter sitting in my Gmail... ;)
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Comment by Christian Brumm on March 25, 2010 at 12:49pm
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Good stuff! I am a heavy user of p2p _technology_ like torrent, social networks (like this one) or packet routing on the internet. ;) I know about the Creative Commons License (CCL). In the software space there is a wh*** bunch of "Open Source Licenses", most prominently the GPL which is - I think - the place this sharing-licenses originated.
I would love to hear more about the principle of p2p applied to non-technology contexts. Thanks for sharing!
And welcome to Evoke, Agent Anick-Marie! ;)
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Comment by Sarah Hickox on March 28, 2010 at 6:46am
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Sounds like an interesting concept to research.
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