"New technologies won't reduce scarcity, but here's something that might "

Prof. Vasilis Kostakis

The Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) research group of the IN3 is pleased to invite you to the open seminar "New technologies won’t reduce scarcity, but here’s something that might" by Prof. Vasilis Kostakis from TalTech, P2Plab and associated to Harvard Law School.
 
 

Venue

Room -1H of the 22@ building
Rambla Poblenou, 156
08018 Barcelona
Espanya

When

28/02/2019 12.00h

Organized by

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, TURBA Lab research group of the IN3

Program

In a book  titled Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?, MIT scientists Henry Lieberman and Christopher Fry discuss why we have wars, mass poverty, and other social ills. They argue that we cannot cooperate with each other to solve our major problems because our institutions are saturated with a competitive spirit. But Lieberman and Fry have some good news: technology can address the root of the problem. They believe that we compete when there is scarcity and that recent technological advances, such as 3D printing and artificial intelligence, will end widespread scarcity. Thus, a post-scarcity world, premised on cooperation, would emerge. But can we really end scarcity? And if we cannot, is there any new socio-technical alternative that would allow us to build a more free, fair and sustainable economy and society?

Vasilis Kostakis is Professor of P2P Governance at TalTech and Faculty Associate at Harvard Law School. He is the founder of the P2P Lab and core member of the P2P Foundation. In 2018, Vasilis was awarded a four-year grant from the European Research Council, to study the convergence of the digital commons with local manufacturing technologies. Along with an interdisciplinary team of scholars, activists, and social entrepreneurs, he focuses on how to create a sustainable economy through the commons.

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