Chapter Fifteen
The Social Organization of Production: Cooperatives and Peer Production
Introduction Privilege in its broadest sense, as we discussed it in Chapter Eleven, is at the root of all the...
<i>Open Sources 2.0</i> is a collection of insightful and thought-provoking essays from today's technology leaders that continues painting the evolutionary picture that developed in the 1999 book <...
This book applies the economic principles of individualist anarchism, as developed in Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, to the study of the large organization. It integrates the insights of m...
Chapter Fourteen
Decentralized Production Technology
Introduction According to Langdon Winner, one of the central problems of the alternative technology movement is its lack of perspective:
Insofar...
In this study, Kevin Carson reviews libertarian perspectives on “intellectual property”; the ethics of the practice itself and the harms resulting from it. He finds that IP is an artificial, rather...
In spite of the conventional wisdom that innovation is driven by the promise of individual and corporate wealth, Steven Weber argues, ensuring the free distribution of code among computer programm...
In No Place to Hide, award-winning Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow, Jr., lays out in unnerving detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data and technology companies and government anti-te...
Chapter Fourteen
Decentralized Production Technology
Introduction According to Langdon Winner, one of the central problems of the alternative technology movement is its lack of perspective:
Insofar...
Open Standards vs. Open Source
How to think about software, standards, and Service Oriented Architecture at the beginning of the 21st century
Robert S. Sutor, Ph.D.
rssutor@gmail.com www.sutor.com...
Library Technology
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Expert Guides to Library Systems and Services
November/December 2008 vol. 44 / no. 8 ISSN 0024-2586
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Systems Thinking
Coping with 21st Century Problems
Industrial Innovation Series
Department of Systems and Engineering Management Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) – Dayton, Ohio
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LET'S FIX IT!
- Overcoming the Crisis in Manufacturing
RICHARD
J.
SCHONBERGER
T H E FREE PRESS
NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY SINGAPORE
T H E F R E E PRESS A Division o f Simon & Schu...
Aluminum
The metallic element aluminum is the third most plentiful element in the earth's crust, comprising 8% of the planet's soil and rocks (oxygen and silicon make up 47% and 28%, respectively)....