The creation of ‘immaterial value’ is co-dependent and can co-exist with the sphere of material value creation by Michel Bauwens |
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July 15, 2008; 1:17 pm by
Albert
Immaterial production deals with non-rival or even anti-rival goods that can be produced through the self-assemblage of interconnected brains, the result of which can then be made ‘universally available’. This works without any problem for software and what is generally called ‘content’.
But, what about immaterial value that is intrinsically interconnected to physical products, which are often ‘rival’ and in any case need systematic cost-recovery mechanisms? Any physical production of course has design aspects which can be produced through peer production, i.e. through open design communities that make their innovations universally accessible, just as software or content is.
