Talk:Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Sources/Considering 2030: Future of the commons

Other overviews that would be interesting

• Risks: Enclosure and propriety
  1. Corporate + business equilibria that trend towards preemptive and re-enclosure
  2. Failure to recognize value except when enclosed: naive view that commons are low value and any successful businesses is by definition high value.
• Opportunities: commons efficiencies of scale, reach, reuse
  1. Similar failure to value effectively: inability to measure global knowledge surplus means advances in global well-being from commons (say, doubling productivity or research speed) are invisible until they happen
  2. Historical examples: even extablished successes like Minitel are forgotten, replaced by enterprises that devote more energy to promotion, lobbying.
  3. Content-focused: what are obvious candidates for a Commons edifice that are still closed off? All of science, medicine, academia. All of education. Much broader than considerations here.

Maybe worth a separate summary. –SJ talk  14:58, 21 September 2017 (UTC)