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Smart Mobs: Chapter 2 - Technologies of Cooperation

"Your corn is ripe to-day; mine will be so tomorrow..." -David Hume, 1739

...If we share nothing else, we should share our corn since it is the wise thing to do.


 * 1) The Alchemy of //**Coopetition**//
 * 2) What do people gain from virtual communities?
 * 3) Social network capital
 * 4) Knowledge capital
 * 5) Communion
 * 6) Collective action dilemmas are the **perpetual balancing of self-interest and public goods**
 * 7) Self-interest involves action for betterment of self.
 * 8) E.g. Bill Gates used an operating system as a profitable idea.
 * 9) **Free Riders** upset the balance.
 * 10) Public good involves action for the betterment of civilization.
 * 11) E.g. The internet was created to connect everyone; it was not to make a profit.
 * 12) **Competition** promotes forward **advancement** in technology and civilization.
 * 13) **Cooperation** promotes a **healthy** community with interest in public goods.
 * 14) Prisoner's Dilemma - The Games People Play
 * 15) Cooperation is observed extensively in the animal kingdom (vampire bats share blood)
 * 16) Competition is the sole driving force of evolution
 * 17) Humans have a decision to make: Cooperate or Compete
 * 18) Cooperate for the betterment of the public good
 * 19) Compete for the betterment of the individual
 * 20) ***Or Sometimes***
 * 21) Compete for the bettermnet of the public good
 * 22) Cooperate for the betterment of the individual
 * 23) ***It can be tricky***
 * 24) **Prisoner's Dilemma**: What is my cellmate thinking? Is he going to rat on me or not? Am I going to rat on him?
 * 25) **TIT FOR TAT**: You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours (overall cooperative scheme)
 * 26) Inventing the Innovation Commons
 * 27) Artificial public good is the internet
 * 28) **Hacker** was the term to describe people who creat computer systems
 * 29) "The foundations of the Internet were created by the community of creators as a gift to the community of users." -SM2 p.48
 * 30) **Open Source** refers to software which will help to maintain the public good.
 * 31) E.g. Unix or Linux
 * 32) Who Knows Who Knows Who?
 * 33) **Networking is very powerful**...
 * 34) **Sarnoff's Law**: The value of broadcast networks is propotionate to the number of viewers.
 * 35) Moore's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and Reed's Law