Ryan Lanham

Ryan Lanham = P2P advocate and theorist with interests in governance (panarchy and leaderless organizations), economics, medicine and learning environments.

Bio

"Born in 1963 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Educated at Johns Hopkins (B.A. 1985). Held various systems and programming positions until becoming Technical Director of Roger Schank's Institute for the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University, an AI/Learning Sciences lab. Later, became Director of Special and Strategic Projects at the Chicago Stock Exchange leading a project to automate the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Launched BlueSuit, Inc. and raised over $20 million in venture capital. The business eventually failed and the name was purchased by the current successful consulting firm. Returned to graduate school at Virginia Tech completing coursework and exams for both Public Administration and Planning, Globalization and Governance PhDs. Did not complete dissertation but worked extensively on research related to leaderless networks, organizational theory and p2p and related topics."

Interests

P2P theory particularly as it relates to forms of governance and governance-related interactions P2P learning and education environments P2P and nonprofits Leaderless organizations Constitutions OTEC energy models Keynesian theories of money Alternative currencies Transhumanism and AI Diabetes and p2p medicine

More Information

Currently the Director of the Civil Service College, Cayman Islands Government, George Town, Cayman Islands.

Active on Delicious, Facebook and a range of other social network sites.

Notable Beliefs and Arguments

P2P is its own economic theory.

Institutions are inconsistent in the long run with rapidly expanding p2p models.

The drying up of predictable long-term cash flows is destroying conventional monetary capitalism.