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laodan discovered 19 months ago- Interview with Michael Bauwens in Open Business by Michael Holloway
Michel Bauwens is an contemporary thinker and Peer-to-Peer theorist who has just been interviewed by Michael Holloway on behalf of OpenBusiness. Bauwens has worked as an internet consultant, information analyst for the United States Information Agency, information manager for British Petroleum (where he created one of the first virtual information centers), and is former editor-in-chief of the first European digital convergence magazine Wave. With Frank Theys, Bauwens is the co-creator of a 3 hour documentary TechnoCalyps. He taught and co-edited two French language anthologies on the Anthropology of Digital Society. Bauwens is the author of a number of on-line essays, including a seminal thesis Peer to Peer and Human Evolution. He is editor of P2P News. He now lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he created the Foundation for P2P Alternatives. He has taught courses on the anthropology of digital society to postgraduate students at ICHEC/St. Louis in Brussels, Belgium and a related course at Payap University and Chiang Mai University in Thailand. Interview with Michael Bauwens
Interesting. This Open model... of distributed networks with absence of external or hierarchical coercion is somehow the old dream of the anarchists and of the counter culture movement of the sixties that has found a strong societal resonance through the actions of Google and the likes. This comes right in time to answer the harrowing side-effects of modernity that are threatening to annihilate life on earth...
- Interview with Michael Bauwens in Open Business by Michael Holloway
