Thanks to my subscription to Fredzimmy’s blog, I found this wonderful blog from Esko Kilpi.

I really recommend you to explore this site from A to Z.

• Look at the wonderful slidedeck on Slideshare
• Have a look at the Flickr photos
• Have a look at the Bookmarks

MIT Media Lab Human Dynamics Group, Howard Rheingold (one of the first ever “internet”-books i ever bought,…, Barbarian Blog.

Yummy, Yummy. This is great stuff for a Sunday afternoon. So inspiring. Delicious 😉

This way, i discovered the FANTASTIC Web 2.0 Expo speech of Douglas Rushkoff about Radical Abundance.

It is a 15 min video, and worth every minute:

Not sure if the video embed worked, so in any case you can find it here by clicking the below image.

Some mind-blowing quotes (in 140 characters ;-):

• The operating system for money is obsolete…
• Abundance based currencies and monopoly based currencies…
• Central Bank Monarch imprinted currencies are scarcity based currencies…
• The money we use today was created so that rich people to stay rich by being rich (and lending) rather than doing anything…

• Our economy is based on the growth of interest
• The people lending money get richer, the people creating value are getting poorer
• But, what happens if you get something that’s abundant ? That you can’t make scarce.
• The computers and networks change the “centrality” of value creation
• You are now able to exchange value directly between one another rather than through a centralized currency
• Optimize human beings to technology
• Technology is more compatible with the values of efficiency than with all the other human values
• Now you’re open and free to Google-Ads
• Web³ will be won by the power of those who can index and aggregate. Is that what we want ?
• Open Source and Crowdsourcing are not the same things
• This notion of “free” leads to a society of copying, to no creativity, to no originality, to DJ’ing of culture
• The abundance of genuinely creative output is declining
• What we need is the development of a digital culture that respects the labor of individuals
• What we need is the creation of new modes of currency based on abundance rather than scarcity.
• I am talking about the original PayPal dream before banks asked them to be regulated like… banks
• The next BIG thing are from people who will create genuine alternative electronic currencies and P2P exchange that do not involve cash.
• I am talking about primitive local currencies such as Timebanks, Itex, Superfluid’s Quids
• Cash has already lost its utility value, as it has been sucked out into investment capital, in the speculative marketplace
• The only real competition against a Google universe (and their ideas of openness – see last weeks Google Blog post about openness btw) would be peer to peer exchange
• We are not suffering from an abundance of creativity, just from an abundance of productivity, efficiency and openness.
• If Web² leads to aggregation and indexers, then genuine P2P will lead to bottom-up value creation.
• The next era is not about scaling-up anymore, it’s about figuring out how to exchange value, in stead of extracting value.
• We are at a crossroads: right now we have the opportunity to optimize our systems, technologies, currencies to humans in stead of optimizing humans to them.