I think that this is a very good article on the "dematerialization" of intellectual labour/knowledgework... At least this side of this or that meltdown virtually all knowledgework is becoming synonymous with what some folks call codework...
And codework at its core is sysematizable and to a very great degree outsourceable... (We have been warned... M -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stefan Merten Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2010 6:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ox-en] Conversation with an engineer Hi StefanMz and all! 2 days ago Stefan Meretz wrote: > Hi StefanMn, thank you for that very interesting report! :-) > On 2010-09-21 20:11, Stefan Merten wrote: >> But I think the message is positive: If you would like to support >> Selbstentfaltung of mechanical engineers bringing us closer to Free >> Hardware and if you are able to program then Selbstentfalt in such >> projects! > > I do not understand this last paragraph: are there missing some words > or > is "Selbstentfalt" to be read as a verb? I meant it as a verb. > Concerning the content: Why do you think, that Selbstentfaltung of > [mechanical engineers | creative human beings] are bringing us closer to > Free [Hardware | Society]? Do you mean this in a rather broad sense, or > do you have some ideas about the process of evolving and transformation? Well, probably in a broad sense. If we think of Selbstentfaltung as one of the main drivers in existing peer production projects and if we think of a generalization of peer production then of course there is the question in which areas we can identify Selbstentfaltung today, already. Selbstentfaltung is a precondition in this sense and for me it's important to empirically support (or reject) this precondition. Another thing we can identify is what are the practical preconditions for people to Selbstentfalt. In the paragraph above I identified the availability of good Free CAD Software as one such precondition. About the process I (still) think it is not very useful to speculate about it. I (still) think the transition from one historical era to another is chaotic and therefore difficult if not impossible to predict in its concrete forms. On a coarser scale, however, from the existing constraints and preconditions I (still) think that you can predict where the process ends. Grüße Stefan _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
