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Trebor Scholz, Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet (Paperback, 2017, OR Books)

Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive.

Here, for the first time in …

it was alright - sadly already dated but an interesting review of how people think about platform cooperatives.

Very little exploration of fediverse, which is surprising.

Trebor Scholz, Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, A New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet (Paperback, 2017, OR Books)

Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive.

Here, for the first time in …

  • Collection of essays about Platform Cooperatives
  • Printed in 2017, many of the essays are waiting for big things to happen in the end of 2016
  • DAOs are called DCOs in 2017!
David Bohm: On dialogue (1996, Routledge)

`During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, television, air travel and satellites has …

Short and worth it. Starts off with a very readable meditation on how people communicate, the magic / "new things" that can come if multiple parties are interested in moving past negotiation and into dialogue. Second half - Less about the dialogue parts, more philosophical about what can be possible if we could just figure out dialogue, as a species.