Today I was chatting with my parentals about what I’m learning in this course, (I don’t normally since during the school year I live on the other side of the continent) and I thought what they were saying was interesting.
I was talking to them about this whole idea of mass collaboration, and how the “Western” world is becoming more and more open to sharing and collaborating with others. They told me, “that’s how the people in China and “Eastern” world used to be back in their and their parents’ generation, but now they are becoming more closed off, and everyone is becoming more and more protective about their ideas and becoming more unfriendly.
I know I’m oversimplfying here, but I wonder are there any peer production / open source sharing modules from other parts of the world, as most of these examples are North American / European(?) based.
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Not only in other parts of the world but other times. This idea of individual creativity and ownership of ideas is relatively new and emerges during the romantic era. As Walter Benjamin foresaw 80 years ago, such concepts may be outmoded.