By Yochai Benkler
With the unconventional alterations in details creation that the web has brought, we stand at a massive second of transition, says Yochai Benkler during this thought-provoking ebook. The phenomenon he describes as social creation is reshaping markets, whereas while supplying new possibilities to reinforce person freedom, cultural range, political discourse, and justice. yet those effects are not at all inevitable: a scientific crusade to guard the entrenched commercial info economic system of the final century threatens the promise of today's rising networked details environment.
In this accomplished social conception of the web and the networked details economic system, Benkler describes how styles of knowledge, wisdom, and cultural creation are changing—and indicates that the best way info and data are made to be had can both restrict or amplify the methods humans can create and exhibit themselves. He describes the diversity of felony and coverage offerings that confront us and keeps that there's a lot to be gained—or lost—by the choices we make at the present time.
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Two fundamental facts have changed in the economic ecology in which the industrial information enterprises have arisen. First, the basic output that has become dominant in the most advanced economies is human meaning and communication. Second, the basic physical capital necessary to express and communicate human meaning is the connected personal computer. The core functionalities of processing, storage, and communications are widely owned throughout the population of users. Together, these changes destabilize the industrial stage of the information economy.
Instead, what we see both from empirical work and theoretical work is that individuals and firms in the economy produce information using a wide range of strategies. Some of these strategies indeed rely on exclusive rights like patents or copyrights, and aim at selling information as a good into an information market. Many, however, do not. In order to provide some texture to what these models look like, we can outline a series of idealtype “business” strategies for producing information. The point here is not to provide an exhaustive map of the empirical business literature.
I describe sustained productive enterprises that take the form of decentralized and nonmarket-based production, and explain why productivity and growth are consistent with a shift toward such modes of production. What I describe is not an exercise in pastoral utopianism. It is not a vision of a return to production in a preindustrial world. It is a practical possibility that directly results from our economic understanding of information and culture as objects of production. It flows from fairly standard economic analysis applied to a very nonstandard economic reality: one in which all the means of producing and exchanging information and culture are placed in the hands of hundreds of millions, and eventually billions, of people around the world, available for them to work with not only when they are functioning in the market to keep body and soul together, but also, and with equal efficacy, when they are functioning in society and alone, trying to give meaning to their lives as individuals and as social beings.