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* Cell: atomic entity representing the smallest, partially autonomous system
* Cell: atomic entity representing the smallest, partially autonomous system
* [http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Social_Currency_Model P2P Social Currency Model]
* Progressive bootstrapping : every new home should be bringing enough resources to counter-balance it's consumption at the cell scale. This can be seen as a community giving
* Progressive bootstrapping : every new home should be bringing enough resources to counter-balance it's consumption at the cell scale. This can be seen as a community giving
* Interconnected Energy Network: [[Distributed Power Generation]] [[Community_Water-Management_Systems]] [[P2P Energy Grid]] [[Green Grid]]
* Interconnected Energy Network: [[Distributed Power Generation]] [[Community_Water-Management_Systems]] [[P2P Energy Grid]] [[Green Grid]]

Revision as of 11:40, 22 December 2008

Introduction

This transversal article is a mere attempt to show the emerging shape of a globally p2p-oriented city model, or at least what it could become someday.

It is intended as a placeholder for resources linked to a City-as-a-grid model, where primal needs generation and distribution (food, energy, chores, computing, essential jobs...) as well as commonly needed dispenses (tools sharing, maintenance fees, ...) would be distributed in a geographical way.

Is shares the same goals as the Global Villages and Multi-local Societies visions, yet aims to have a scientific insight on the alternative that is being offered to us all.

Notions such as a part-time chore concept (citizen participation), peer to peer learning, alternative money or the implications of 3D replication/printing technologies or of immersive telepresence (enabling telework) will be studied keys.

A wider goal for this project is to study the dynamics of the needed resources in conjunction with population evolution, of the global cost of the infrastructure, and to consider this model applicable in a natural transition from immaterial goods towards a parallel, goods-based, geographical community.

Ultimately, the use of virtual worlds based technologies as simulation basis might help compare the discerned approaches and notions impacts.

Notions and related resources

Related resources

  1. Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy envisions a composite (both manufacturial and culturally segmented) society model emergence during Mars' terraforming and colonization