[Call this section 'Themes' instead?]
The complex systems/networks lens provides us with a set of concepts which we'll articulate here. [So this will be the framing device.]
This is not a book about turning big industry green. This is not a book about the greening of government.
This is not a book about global green social movements.
This is a book about change.
The world has changed and the new one has new rules.
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We will be seeing certain themes/concepts turning up again and again in this book:
Plurality: many ways
Diversity: different ways
many2many: everything is connected
peer2peer: connections are horizontal
do-it-ourselves: incentives are internal
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We have 'objects' and 'relations':
* design: start simple, many pieces loosely joined. Adapt as needed. Allow for many ways of re-using. Design outputs to be inputs. What is the simplest way to design the building blocks to create what you hope to see, so that it can evolve and emerge into what it needs to be? [Think the initial Lego bricks that had only studs as opposed to later bricks that had other means of connecting.]
* activity processes: create adaptive processes in your activities that find people who are creating outputs for you to use as your inputs, and make your outputs findable, plus you finding people who can use them. This should include the discussion of static 'roles' vs. dynamic 'activities.' [Obviously some discussion here of Morville, 'Ambient Findability']
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How and why the Bell Curve is giving way to the Long Tail. [Power Laws are part of Complex Systems and Networks theory.]
in order to capture efficiencies of scale
you have to homogenize the work
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techniques don't matter
the names of the commons chapters are the production of what: energy, food, culture, etc.
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There's the Thing and the Information that goes into the thing, i.e. the 'design' layer is always present as a film over the made layer.
thus
openness as a key concept
rapid innovation
open design
etc
