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ƛ conceptual economy: from industrial to conceptual capitalism
ƛ Ʀ powered by talents: creativity is the ultimate resource
ƛ communication revolution: allows so many more to be creative
Ä changes ' governments will work
ƛ platform for brains outside of government (Open Government, Govt. 2.0)
ƛ coordination, not command and control
ƛ trust / rely on people with access to so much knowledge and information
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ƛ empower the creative and innovative
ƛ provide/preserve technical infrastructure that encourages creativity
ƛ develop new intellectual property rights for the conceptual economy

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Ä value is in meaning not in function
Ä function:
ƛ quenches thirst
ƛ keeps you warm
ƛ plays music
ƛ gets you from hope to office
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Ä meaning:
ƛ it is the original Coca Cola
ƛ it si new and fashionable dress, shirt, car
ƛ it is an iPod not some no name stuff
ƛ it is environmentaly friendly
ƛ it is fair traded, no-child labour Ʀ
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Ä how is meaning created? by talent
Ä who can be talent? an increasing number
of people
Ä how is meaning communicated? by
communication technology

references: Alan Greenspan, Dan Pink, Richard Florida

detour: abundance of functional products is a core reason for the crisis, we have
the stuff that provide function, need not buy new!


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Ä 1500AD democratic paper
Ä 1900AD exclusive electronic
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Ä poor communication
ƛ few people involved in decision making:
autocracy
Ä better communication
ƛ more people involved: democracy, subsidiarity

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Ä expensive paper mostly oral, some writing:
ƛ governing by a small group of people that can talk to each other and
dispatch commands by writing (kingdoms, dictatorships, agora type
democracy)
ƛ very few literate, educated, most of them working for church or
government
ƛ autocracy
Ä cheap paper: more writing:
ƛ paper based communication enables power sharing and subsidiary among
those that can reliably communicate with paper
ƛ mass education through books
ƛ democracy
Ä electronic; TV, mass media:
ƛ technology again available to elites only;
ƛ democracy by real power concentrated
Ä internet
ƛ empowers the masses

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Ä does Internet make the case for an increasingly

libertarian future?
ƛ Milton Friedman: "government should decide when people do not
have information to decide for themselves"
ƛ we are living in an information age; information is easier to get
than any time before
Ä does Internet weaken the role of government
ƛ portion of educated people working for the states keeps
decreasing
ƛ majority of smart people is outside the government

Ä key issue:
ƛ how can governments, states, business make use of all those
smart people, with all the information and knowledge available
to them with a few mouse clicks
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Ä like the industry: open innovation
ƛ let users innovate, innovation outside the r&d departments
Ä like web 2.0
ƛ users add value
ƛ provide a platform for users to add value
ƛ blogs, youtube, flickr, twitter Ʀ
Ä government 2.0
ƛ government as a platform (O'Rilley)
ƛ government provides a platform for people to make value
ƛ middle of the circle, not top of the pyramid
ƛ government not a decision making body but a coordination
platform among stakeholders
ƛ govt. actors job: get the best people around you!
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ƛ he/she has more data, information, knowledge available than
ever before; let her use it!
ƛ entrepreneurship
ƛ access to education
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creativity
ƛ net neutrality, not local monopolies and market distortions by
ISPs
ƛ broadband for all, like access to other utilities
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ƛ security and safety
ƛ property rights
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Ä property rights management (about material property)
contributed to the raise of the West since 1500s;
ƛ environment that rewarded fairness, honesty, protected
property allowed for the best, not the most cheating one, to
win
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ƛ sharing material stuff (like in socialism) does not work
Ä conceptual, intellectual property can be shared not at an
expense of other
ƛ sharing ideas that lead to tangible stuff (patents) Ʀ done
ƛ sharing ideas that remain intangible, conceptual Ʀ ‰
 
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Ä Greenspan: key issue for legislators is to find a most
productive way to handle this kind of intellectual property
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