Monday, January 10, 2011

One more meaning to Global Village

Continent, countries, provinces, regions, towns, sectors... and their governmental legitimity...all with good intentions but mountains of laws and their red tapes can't cover it all. The rising of "shared consumption", the capacity through internet to exchange goods based on trust (a rating that is attributed to you) is to the image of one's place in the "historical" village. However, this time our honesty rating or absence thereof will be built and known by people who will never meet you but will engage into trading with you.
By exchanging a book that you read for one you are interested in, people who share something with you will learn about you. They will learn to which degree they can trust and for what, in a way equivalent to your credit score but this time at a people level: accountability at the level of your action, and because it is computationable, also for the sum of your actions.

What you do and do not do becomes your e-profile.

Once again, after thousand years of innocence we are to become accountable!

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