2005-02-18

Technology and the economics of sharing


Now, even The Economist takes seriously the impact on the economy of new means of technology and information sharing, notably the Open Source movement. More on this to come in further posts.




T5: Communications and information / Communications et information | Pierre Ducasse



COMMENTAIRES

On a similar subject (but with a more theoretical point of view), Kevin McGee and Jörgen Skågeb wrote in FirstMonday:

Gifting technologies
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/mcgee/index.html

"there is strong evidence to suggest that people have strong giving (or gifting) needs. This evidence suggests an opportunity for the development of gifting technologies — and it also suggests an important research question and challenge: what needs and concerns do gifters have and what technologies can be developed to help them?"

Par Clément Laberge le 2005-02-17 20:29

An excellent and optimistic book on a related topic, "Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism", is available full-text online at:
http://www.fims.uwo.ca/people/faculty/dyerwitheford/

Par Elise Cogo le 2005-04-30 15:07



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