IT CERTIFICATION / Elearning:
– Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World (2015)
– Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web
– Practical JXTA II
1 Bit by Bit: How P2P Is Freeing the World argues that today’s emergent technology is about more than new and cool toys Jeffrey Tucker, CLO of Liberty me and Distinguished Fellow of the Foundation for Economic Education, argues that peer-to-peer technology is forging a new and brighter social, economic, and political order
People tend to look at innovations in isolation Here is my new e-reader Here is an app I like Here is my new mobile device and computer Even bitcoin is routinely analyzed and explained in terms of its properties as an alternative to national currencies, as if there were no more than that at stake
But actually there is a historical trajectory at work here, one that we can trace through its logic, implementation, and spread It’s the same logic that led from the dial phone at the county store, operated by people pulling and plugging in wires, to the wireless smartphone in your pocket that contains the whole store of human knowledge It’s all about technology in the service of individuation
Once you understand the driving ethos – voluntarism, creativity, networks, individual initiative – you can see the outlines of a new social structure emerging within our time, an order that defies a century of top-down planning and nation-state restrictionism
It is coming about not because of political reform It is not any one person’s creation It is not happening because a group of elite intellectuals advocated it The new world is emerging organically, and messily, from the ground up, as an extension of unrelenting creativity and experimentation In the end, it is emerging out of an anarchist order that no one in particular controls and no one in particular can fully understand
“The building of universal prosperity is a process that unfolds bit by bit through decentralized decision making and improvements at the margin through trial-and-error To continue this process, we need understanding, patience, and dreams Jeffrey Tucker’s book is an excellent guide to all three ” ~ Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock com, from the introduction
“In Bitcoin’s brief existence Jeffrey Tucker has become one of its leading proponents In this book we can see exactly why Many people think of bitcoin as just money, but Mr Tucker is able to explain, in a way that is easily understandable by all, the tsunami of innovation that bitcoin is about to release upon the world ” ~ Roger Ver, Bitcoin investor, from the Foreword
2 Cyberactivism already has a rich history, but over the past decade the participatory web-with its de-centralized information/media sharing, portability, storage capacity, and user-generated content-has reshaped political and social change Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web examines the impact of these new technologies on political organizing and protest across the political spectrum, from the Arab Spring to artists to far-right groups Linking new information and communication technologies to possibilities for solidarity and action-as well as surveillance and control-in a context of global capital flow, war, and environmental crisis, the contributors to this volume provide nuanced analyses of the dramatic transformations in media, citizenship, and social movements taking place today
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