The Future of Work, Fun, and Being Social
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by Joe Edelman (Center for Adventure Economics at CouchSurfing)
- an introduction to the nascent adventure economy, or
- How Internet Reputation Systems and The Online Coordination of Offline Life are Changing the Fundamental Structure of Society
The slides, in various formats
- Apple Keynote (the original format)
- Powerpoint
- Quicktime
Bibliography
Web of Content Examples
- http://del.icio.us
- http://flickr.com
- http://en.wikipedia.org
- http://myspace.com
- http://43things.com
- Open Source
Web of Life Examples
- http://couchsurfing.com
- http://upcoming.org
- http://meetup.com
- http://www.mobile-clubbing.com
- http://improveverywhere.com
- http://www.newmindspace.com/
- http://www.flashmob.com/
- http://avantgame.com
- Free Hugs
- Pillow Fight Club
- Parkour [1]
- Online Dating [2]
- http://www.ecolane.com/services/carpool/index.html
Intermediate examples (authors are encouraged to physically meet each other)
- Ze Frank - "the show" was his collaboratively created daily video show
On task size and task distribution
On isolation and community in modern life
- Bowling Alone
- "Cooperation Gain"
On the mixed nature of the economy
- Avner Offer, Between the gift and the market: the economy of regard; Economic History Review, L 3(1997), pp. 450-476
- Ronald Coase, The Nature of the Firm
- Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks
- Yochai Benkler, Sharing Nicely
Short Stories about the Adventure Economy
- http://math.berkeley.edu/~scott/wiki/Maneki_Neko
- http://www.hfac.uh.edu/mcl/faculty/armstrong/cityofdreams/texts/babylon.html
See also
- Random Action - a street-level, tactical-kindness community that Joe intends to start in the next year
- Adventure Economy Portal - a more structured list of adventure economy projects. add to it!
- fnet - a project to make open-source back-end infrastructure for the adventure economy
- Center for Adventure Economics - some more on the economics and the people involved
The Center for Adventure Economics at CouchSurfing.
"Radical vision and running code."
— econometrics — trust and reputation systems — free life —
