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-  The Historical Origins of Inequality Fascinating from P2P-Foundation! Related: The Origins of Religion, Beginning With the Big Bang Fra massesamfunn til stammesamfunn? Terje Bongard hos NRKs Verdibørsen

Michel Bauwens 27th October 2012 Original article from P2P-Foundation here . P2P and networked technologies are here to stay, are expanding, and will become the dominant technological format. Yet, that doesn’t mean at all that the future is a foregone conclusion. Around these technologies we will see political and social struggles that will involve ownership and governance (control), and also their mobilization by social forces having their own worldviews, interests and agenda. To distinguish various futures, I have produced a impromptu four quadrant structure according to two axes: 1) one distinguishes the centralized vs. distributed control of p2p infrastructures (and on the right side, this tension is best expressed by global vs. local orientation) 2) the other distinguishes for-profit (let’s say ‘capitalist’) vs. for-benefit orientations (let’s say ‘commons’) This gives us four quadrants: Upper-Left: Netarchical Capitalism , is characterized by the centralized c...

This picture I made earlier this year from Glomdalsmuseet museum has become a puzzle   Go to the puzzle site here , or go directly to the puzzle game  here .   Such things inspire me to continue adding photos to Wikimedia Commons .   Have a nice play!

I just found this excellent introduction to Alexander's 15 properties of life! The degree of life which appears in a thing depends upon the life of its component centers and their density. Following are fifteen structural features which Christopher Alexander has identified as appearing again and again in things which have life.  Together, these fifteen properties identify the character of living systems. They are the principal ways in which centers can be strengthened by other centers. They are not independent, but rather rely on and reinforce each other. Things which are more whole, which exhibit more life, will have these fifteen properties to a strong degree. Conversely, the things in this world which are most lifeless will have these properties to the least degree. - TKWA Read more and see excellent illustrations and photos of the 15 properties: -  The Fifteen Fundamental Properties of Wholeness

Publisert som dagens bilde i Oppland Arbeiderblad, s. 14, torsdag 4. oktober 2012. Se bildet på Origo her .

Photo by rama_miguel on Flickr. (CC BY-SA)  Could it be useful sometimes to replace the name permaculture with something else, because some people have wrong associations with the word? I’ve heard people discussing this, but they didn’t come up with any alternative. Here I have a suggestion: “integrated design”.