73 page PDF monologue on the societal aspects of P2P [[yeah, right]] 
and the proposal that its relational dynamic represents a new mode of 
civili[s|z]ation.

Also of interest wrt discussions re copyright, IP, patents and related 
matters.

        http://www.networkcultures.org/weblog/archives/P2P_essay.pdf


I personally find it to be about 70 pages too long, and use of large 
words and grandiose style seems to be more important than clarity of 
meaning, BUT it has some interesting thoughts buried amongst the other 
95.89%.

Also available in a 3 page prettified / different layout form, first 
page at

        http://integralvisioning.org/article.php?story=p2ptheory1



                Russell::



Ref: David Daniel who may or may not have been taking the Mickey out 
of me with his associated comment. Either way it's good to have it to 
help fill up my hard disks. [[If anyone had told me 10 years ago that 
I'd have 1+ terabytes of online disk storage and still find it almost 
full I might have questioned their veracity [[Mirrored backup of 
photos and burgeoning megapixel sensors don't help]]. 

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