“Man is a Tool-using Animal. . . . Nowhere do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.” ( Thomas Carlyle)

This is a place to monitor technological developments, the P2P infrastructure, software issues, technology-enabled cooperation, etc.. Eventually, this section should exhibit the answer to the following question: what are the technical requirements for human emancipation? How to we design and implement an infrastructure that guarantees the particiaption of all?

Key Resources

1. Decentralized P2P software programs are monitored and indexed here
2. The Organizer's Tool Crib is a participatory directory of online tools and resources for social change activists.
3. Here is a provisional list of courses related to social technology, which are being updated through this link in Delicious
4. For fully distributed Peer to Peer Computer Networks, please check out Tribler ;

Peerple ; Wipeer

Articles

1. Peer-to-Peer Networks as a Distribution and Publishing Model: the best introduction to the advantages of P2P Computing!
2. The Rise of the Stupid Network. David Isenberg's classic essay for locating intelligence in the periphery, not the core.
3. End-to-End Arguments in System Design: The best way to design a network is to allow the sender and receiver to decide what the data means, without asking the intervening network to interpret the data.
4. World of Ends: Doc Searls and David Weinberger summarize the key characteristics of the internet.
5. Telecommunication expert Gordon Cook asks: Is Bandwidth Infinite?

Podcasts on P2P Technology

1. Adam Greenfield on Ubiquitous Computing
2. Bruce Sterling on the Internet of Things
3. Conversation with Ward Cunningham

Thematic Issues of P2P News

P2P Social Software, Issue 100 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p100

P2P Technologies, Issue 94 of P2P News, at http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2p94

Wikipedia Articles

Collaborative Filtering, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering

Collaborative software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_software

Computer-supported collaboration, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-supported_collaboration

Computer-supported cooperative work, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_supported_cooperative_work

Debian Free Software Guidelines, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines

Filesharing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesharing

GNU, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU

GNU General Public License, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License

Grid Computing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing

FLOSS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOSS

FOSS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS

Free Content, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_content

Free software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

Open Source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source

Open Source Initiative, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative

Open Source Definition, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Definition

Open Source software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software

Open Source Software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Software

Peer to Peer (technology), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_to_peer

Point to Point (technology), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point

Public Domain, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

Recommendation system, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommendation_system

Reputation, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation

Social software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_software

Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Wiki software, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software