Technological Socialism

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May 6
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The forum will is owned by the people who use it, who are working towards a common goal, Better Extrusion and Better Die Casting. The online masses have an incredible willingness to share. When individuals work together towards a common goal, it produces results that emerge at a group level. Organizes collaboration can produce results beyond the achievements of ad hoc cooperation. The aim of a collective is to engineer a system where self-directed peers take responsibility for critical processes and where difficult decisions, such as sorting out priorities, are decided by all participants. Rather than viewing this type of technological socialism as one side of a zero-sum trade-off between free-market individualism and centralized authority, it can be seen as a "cultural operating system" that elevates both the individual and the group at once. The goal of communitarian technology is to maximize both the individual autonomy and the power of people working together. A recent survey asked open source developers what their motivation was to participate. The most common was "to learn and develop new skills". The power of sharing, cooperation, collaboration, openness and transparency is more practical and bigger than anyone thought possible, and it is growing.

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