From 6dd1e349359ea4ea72151effe385efba4b20ef14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: gorhgorh Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 22:55:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] added No second (life) chances talk --- proposed/no-second-life-chances.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 proposed/no-second-life-chances.md diff --git a/proposed/no-second-life-chances.md b/proposed/no-second-life-chances.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d081254 --- /dev/null +++ b/proposed/no-second-life-chances.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +# No second (life) chances + +name : Nick Merrill +time: 30 minutes - 1 hour depending on needs/wants +need travel fee : would be neded, yes, i am a student +need room : yes +Location : oakland, ca, usa + +Over the course of it's beta, from 2003 to 2007, Second Life transformed in vision from a peer-to-peer market society with no hierarchies and no scarcity, to a hypercapitalist society, driven by corporate verticals and labor exploitation. How did this happen? The aim of this talk is to surface patterns in communities, cultures, and socio-technical systems that make labor ownership difficult to build and enforce. Ultimately, we look toward the question: How can we prevent the present generation of idealistic developers, bent on subverting traditional mechanisms of application and data control, from falling into the same trap as Second Life?