GreenPill 157 - Moving Towards a Fourth Generation Civilization with Michel Bauwens
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Oct 12, 2023 
Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, discusses the foundation's inception, the history of human coordination, and how we are moving towards a Digital Renaissance. They also explore managing the commons, the fourth turning, and how to get involved in building a peer-to-peer future.
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P2P Networking Scales Super-Linearly
- Peer-to-peer (P2P) networking is super-linear, letting non-local digital proximity replace physical proximity for large-scale cooperation.
- This enables translocal commons-based production that can outcompete centralized command-and-control at scale.
Document Seed Forms To Accelerate Change
- Study and document emerging seed forms so their collective intelligence can guide larger transitions.
- Build platforms and syntheses to help commoners share patterns and scale practical experiments.
Commons Are Regenerative Institutions
- The commons function as regenerative, protective institutions that fill gaps left by failing markets and states.
- Commons re-emerge in crises to mutualize provisioning and preserve shared resources across communities.