Appunti da Future Perfect /2: ripensare le istituzioni

Da whitehouse.gov 

Ripensare le strutture delle istituzioni: non una via di mezzo, ma un nuovo paradigma.

Da Future Perfect:

Living strictly by peer-progressive values means rethinking the fundamental structures of some of the most revered institutions of modern life; it means going back to the drawing board to think about how private companies and democracies are structured. 

It is, as the political writer Micah Sifry likes to say, not a matter of finding a middle ground between Left and Right, but rather finding a way forward. This is why it is so important that these principles not be confused with simple Internet utopianism. There’s nothing radical in taking an existing institution and putting it on the Internet: that's a job for an IT department, not a political upheaval. 

What peer progressives want to see is fundamental change in the social architecture of those institutions, not just a web strategy. 

Chi lo ha capito dalle nostre parti?

(qui la parte 1 degli appunti)

Appunti da Future perfect /1: Kickstarter e i peer networks

Sto leggendo Future Perfect di Steven B. Johnson in maniera un po' strana, rimettendo insieme pezzi e idee che avevo sparso su foglietti e file word.
Li metto qui, forse altrettanto disordinatamente.

Le statistiche di Kickstarter nel 2012

Su Kickstarter:

At last count, 48 percent of Kickstarter projects do not reach their funding goal, and thus raise zero dollars. This is, as they say, a feature, not a bug.   

All of which sounds like market mechanism in precisely the mode that Hayek described: the consumers collectively weeding out the bad ideas through the magic of paying for things.

 Certi meccanismi però non funzionano altrettanto bene in altri contesti:

To date, the most prominent examples of network architectures influencing real world change have been the decentralized protest movements that have emerged in the past few years: MoveOn, Arab Spring, the Spanish Revolution, Occupy Wall Street. These movements have been fascinating to watch and [...] they have succeeded brilliantly at expressing a popular dissatisfaction with the status quo, building awareness for a particular injustice, and on occasioni raising money. But they have all proved to be somewhat disappointing at actually proposing new solutions and making those solutions reality. [...]
Could it be that peer networks won't perform as well outside the grounds of Web 2.0 technology?