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Volume 8, Number 6
\nApril 21, 2005
\nEdited by John L. Petersen
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See past issues in the Archives<\/a><\/p>\n

In This Issue:<\/span><\/p>\n

Essay<\/span><\/a> – P2P and Human Evolution by Michel Bauwens
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Future Facts<\/span><\/a> – from Think Links
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Think Links<\/span><\/a> – The Future in the News\u2026Today
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A Final Quote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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At The Arlington Institute, we believe that to understand the future, you need to have an open mind and cast a very wide net. To that end, FUTUREdition explores a cross-disciplinary palette of issues, from the frontiers of science and technology to major developments in mass media, geopolitics, the environment, and social perspectives.<\/p>\n


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<\/a>P2P and Human Evolution: Placing Peer to Peer Theory in an Integral Framework \u2013 by Michael Bauwens<\/p>\n

Asked why it is that Integral Theories, such as those by Ken Wilber and the Spiral Dynamics system, do not seem to talk at P2P at all, Michael Bauwens has attempted here to define P2P as precisely as possible, to explain its emergence, and to place it in a number of evolutionary lines of development, as far as possible. He envisions the P2P relationship as the most likely next stage of civilization (i.e. either that or a return to barbarism).<\/p>\n

Chris Stewart, of the Integral Foresight Institute, had said of the essay, “What Michael Bauwens has achieved in a very short space fulfills the same function as the Communist Manifesto once did: a call for a worldwide movement for social and political change, firmly rooted in the objective and subjective changes of contemporary society, and articulated as a practical and insightful model of human value and power relations that is ahead of its time. If we listen more carefully to Bauwens than we ever did Marx, however, it just might lead to a smooth evolution for humanity rather than revolution, or at worst, destruction. Bauwens has traced out real contours of hope for Western civilization. His presentation of a P2P perspective includes a clear theory of human power and value relations, a practical appreciation of its relationship to the current orthodoxy, and an inspiring vision for viable, sustainable, and desirable futures.”<\/p>\n

Continued – http:\/\/207.44.196.94\/~wilber\/bauwens2.html<\/a><\/p>\n


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<\/a>FUTURE FACTS – FROM THINK LINKS<\/span>
\nDID YOU KNOW THAT…<\/span><\/p>\n