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01 Oct 08
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30 Sep 08
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By cultural clouds, I'm talking about the new layer of the human cultural stack we're busy laying down as a by product of all our social and creative activities in the inofverse.
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These new cultural clouds appear in the ever growing collections of crowdsourced collectively or socially accumulated judgements, cultural products, knowledge, history, relationships, etc., encoded in the form of managed digital information.
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By form and makeup, the cloud commons is ephemeral and distributed. But as digital information, it is eminently tangible and actionable. Our basic social structures and mechanisms - science, the law, economics, art, agriculture, religion, technology - will recognize the emergence of cloud commons, and respond accordingly
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What does the future hold? As recognition of cloud-based commons grows, expect to see all the patterns of activity typical of new frontiers and zones of instability: wildcatting, pioneering, piracy, squatting, privateering, enclosure, slums and shanty towns (informal settlements in the parlance of architecuter and urban planning) extractive industries, sovereign claims, colonization, speculation, etc.
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enclosure and extractive practices act as negative feedback mechanisms, decreasing current estimations of a commons or commons-based resource's future value, making the tragedy of the commons a likely outcome scenario.
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