Umair pushes back on a comment I wrote to him the other day.

I think this is one of the grand, defining debates of our times ... with the discovery of "the edge" or "peer" or the "bazaar" model of production, those of us who believe in it, still need to orient our political attitudes with respect to it.

Do we remain sceptics, believing that, whatever its virtues, peer is just a tool, hostage to the foibles of human choice? Or do we believe it is, if not a law, then at least a pattern of the system dynamics of economies, as near to a historical inevitability as we may hope for in our times?

Tempting as it is, Stowe Boyd's "edgelings" is an example of the kind of utopianism that netocracy-theory wants to steer you away from.

CrowdSpirit crowdsources hardware development.

(hat tip 4h4r0n)