Mitar's Point

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I proposed the new global economic system which allows gradual transition from the current system.

I wrote about the new global economic system in the past.

Feynman’s 1974 Caltech commencement address.

We made a new video talking about the emerging community of PeerLibrary, as well as the project’s origins in the open access movement. via peerlibrary

Presentation of PeerLibrary at iAnnotate 2014 conference in San Francisco.

It is interesting to think about the whole concept of shareholding and corporations.

I have proposed a new global economic system which, instead of trying to reduce transactions between people to one numerical value (money), stores all information about the transaction itself so that then later on everybody can assign a personalized value…

For PeerLibrary project we had discussions on how much distributed or centralized should we make it.

I have a proposal for a double social experiment, merging two disruptive ideas.

I am still waiting for somebody to create a programming framework where user could edit the program itself while it is running.

In gift economies, Mauss argued, exchanges do not have the impersonal qualities of the capitalist marketplace: In fact, even when objects of great value change hands, what really matters is the relations between the people; exchange is about creating frie…

The basic biological answer is that local cooperation benefits global competitiveness.

Net neutrality is an important feature of the Internet, but it is at risk.

Isn’t it interesting how music and dance are so widespread among human cultures?

Interesting presentation of DDOSing as an online collective action.

I am envisioning a new global economic system1 where you do not provide service or goods to another person because they pay you, but because you evaluate how much, which and how they themselves have provided services and goods to others in the past.

We released a 0.1 version of PeerLibrary.

The following was a class report done together with Valkyrie Savage where we compared my idea for voting described in the previous post with others similar ideas we found around.

One more old document explaining technical background of the voting system presented in the previous post.

I am publishing a longer document describing one my idea of a massive online collaborative decision-making system.

Crowdsourcing definitely has some issues we are not talking about enough.

I do not understand why people have issues with sea level rising.

Few days ago I was taking a BART and saw a guy going into the BART without the ticket and the officer there complaining and not allowing him to go in.

And just as there is a best size for every animal, so the same is true for every human institution.

via peerlibrary

Today, health care related products and services markets are global.

Why, when choosing an airplane seat, you cannot say that you do not care where you seat, just that you seat next to somebody interesting (listing your interests)?

Presentation of PeerLibrary at OKCon 2013. via peerlibrary

The document that officially put the World Wide Web into the public domain on 30 April 1993.

I am still waiting for the laptop which would have an on demand transparent (see through) screen.

Is open source possible because of the general lack of programmers so we do not even need an union to be able to require from our employers perks?

Internet has to go!

Two thousand years ago, Plato wrote the collected dialogues in which he presented the views of Socrates on the important issues of those times.

Presentation of PeerLibrary and open access tools panel at Creative Commons Global Summit 2013 in Buenos Aires.

From UC Berkeley health care plan: This Plan does not cover nor provide benefits for: Expense incurred as a result of injury due to participation in a riot.

The meeting and panel on open access organized by Open Access Initiative at Berkeley on May 8 2013 at UC Berkeley, South Hall (School of Information), answering many questions about open access.

A great talk by Bret Victor about the future (or past?)

What exactly is effective democracy?

Hacktivations bring together developers, designers and storytellers to come together and hack for good on software projects that are creating social good through their work.

I am not sure if I agree with everything in this essay by Roy F.

The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life.

Beauty of the nature, in its many forms of beauty.

Jane Elliott’s “brown eyes, blue eyes” experiment in 1970 showing racism through a game of racism based on eyes color.

PeerLibrary, a project I am currently working on, won the award for Highest Impact at Meteor Hackathon 2013.

It is always very important to ask yourself about the meaning of some solution.

A nice example how to approach open data and open government and how to build tools for public.

Parrots the Universe and Everything is a beautiful set of stories by Douglas Adams which show an interesting perspective of relation between human animal and nature.

Alyssa Royse explains how our current predator/prey model of sexual relationships is harmful to both men and women.