User:Robert Ryan

Interests:

3D Printing, RepRap, Industry Formation Distributed Digital Fabrication Crowdfunding (especially crowed equity) Maker Faire Early Industry Communities Competition and Economic Cycles National Innovation Systems

P2P Related Projects: Dissertation on the formation of the 3D printing industry Popular Market History Book (co-produced, Kickstarted) for the 3D Printing Industry P2P Community Facebook Group Development "Measuring Meaning at the Collective Level" Academic Community (Academy of Management) "Alternatives to the Corporation" Academic Community (Academy of Management)

Potential Project Interests:

P2P Volunteerism at the Maker Faire Pattern Language for Organizational Theory Writing and Editing for a P2P Foundation Quarterly Publication Writing and Editing for a brief "P2P Handbook" Podcast for Possible P2P Foundation Publication Future Fundraising for P2P Foundation, if it sponsors a Publication

Selected Employment (education): PhD University of Pittsburgh (ABD) MBA University of Delaware (minor in econometrics) BA University of Delaware (international relations/antropology)

Endo Pharmaceuticals (Market Forecaster) Springhouse Antiques (Furniture Maker/Finisher) Music Industry Consulting Wells Fargo Auto Finance (Customer Service Rep)

Background:

I came to the P2P group in 2012 on Facebook through a Facebook friend, (Poor Richard). It fit my interests in exloring alternatives to the corporation and in 3D Printing. I was not aware at the time that others had been writing books about a flatter economy based on disintermediation networks, but I intuitively already was seeking such a community discussion. IN the past I had self-identified as a "centrist anarcho-socialist", meaning that I gravitated towards communitization and reduction of heierachy, albeit skeptically. I still believe in the importance of private property and tend to agree with Jaron LAnier's vision of micro-payments, whereby we commoditize that which we have been giving each other for free. However, I believe that this commoditization shoudl largely be a "hidden script" -that is, even though inter-personal "profit margins" ought to be there, they ought to be small and we shouldn't pay profit motive much mind. Unless we intend to donate sizeably to one another, we should think of our exchanges as gifts even though they still literally involve wealth transfer for soods and services. For example, if Spotify actually paid artists reasonably based on pre-loaded accounts, it would be a good model. In short, I think we need more community corporatization, but that if payment transfer and exchange systems are well-designed, they will be nearly invisible and uninteresting so that we might focus our social efforts more on actual content generation and on curation instead of profit.