Disclosing the commons
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We live in the emergence of a new cultural epoch, one that is global, not national; ecological, not statist; altruistic, not selfish. These reversals are driven by the emergence of digital networks. The history of our time is one in which human actions will disclose and determine their power and limitations. . . .
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[edit] Enclosure and the rise of capitalism
In the rise of capitalism, the enclosure movement converted many common lands to private property. Land as a commons was vulnerable to enclosure, for it was fixed and finite; once someone asserted full ownership over it, the land was unlikely to revert to a common status. In a digital world, the resources are neither finite nor fixed. The cost or reproducing something is near zero in two key senses — there is neither qualitative cost, for reproduction is error-free and does not degrade the resource, nor quantitative cost, for it requires neither significant consumption of energy nor material to make and distribute the reproduction. In the digital world, the commons is not tragic.
[edit] Disclosure and the recovery of the commons
To be developed. . . .
[edit] The commons and ecological balance
To be developed. . . .
[edit] References
- Greco, Gian Maria, and Luciano Floridi. "The Tragedy of the Digital Commons." (Oxford: Information Ethics Group, 2003) Research Report 14.10.03
- Hardin, Garrett. "The Tragedy of the Commons." Science, New Series, Vol. 162, No. 3859. (Dec.13, 1968), pp. 1243-1248. JSTOR or "Tragedy of the Commons? Web Resources," Science Magazine On-line.
- Kranich, Nancy. The Information Commons: A Public Policy Report (Free Expression Policy Project, 2004) On-line.
- Kranich, Nancy, Ann Wolpert, and Steven Pinker. "The Future of Digital Commons," The MIT Communications Forum, September 22, 2005. On-line.
