The Emergence J. Paul Duplantis

Welcome to the final episode of The Emergence podcast.

Host, J. Paul Duplantis discusses his reasons for ending the Emergence Podcast and his wish for open source technologists and funders to rise to the challenge of building communication technology to drive purpose more than profit.

Watch this episode on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M78dAio2Glo&t=19s

Introductory episode for The Emergence Podcast series of videos exploring the potential of open source communication technologies funded by not for profit interests. This introductory video will be followed by a series of challenges looking throughout all aspects of society where open source technologies funded by not for profit interests could make a positive impact.  

From civic engagement to social interactions, entertainment, learning, productivity, mindfulness, collaboration, health, and philanthropy, what tools could  be built where the quality of the experiences are prioritized over the potential of profit?   What tools are already built? What methodologies speak to this? Where is the talent building these tools? What are the use cases for such technology to exist? Where are the funders to build these technologies where profit takes a backseat to favorably impacting people and the communities they engage with? 

Every challenge in this series will look to  answer these questions by aligning a potential use case with resources to help make it possible.

Contact paulduplantis@gmail.com for ideas and resources for future challenges.

Join the Emergence for a commentary on The Marginalized Consumer and how the profit motive in the building of communication tools is fracturing the free market.

In this episode, the question is asked if communication technology is responsible for inquiry and feedback between consumers and providers, is it healthy for society when the tools for communication are built for the profit of the provider of the tools over the interests of the people using the tools. Where people who are consumers, employees, managers, executives, owners of businesses, and representatives of government are influenced by how these tools engage their interests around information, goods, and services.

When this exchange is created and managed by companies for profit, wouldn’t it stand to reason the tools would be built to benefit the bottom line of the provider of the tools rather than the people using the tools? Wouldn’t this result in a framework of communication threaded throughout society optimized for a profit motive over a people motive? Is this healthy for society?

What if quality of engagement was at the heart of communication tools built in the future funded by philanthropic sources focused on building open source, non exclusive communication tools optimized for a return on interaction over a return on investment? What is possible when consumer and stakeholder engagement around information, goods, and services were moved from the periphery as being driven by the market to being drivers of the market?

Listen to this episode to learn more.

Join The Emergence for a deep dive into the function of Worker Co-ops with ASU Post Doctoral Associate Nigel Forrest. What is a worker cooperative? How is a worker owned company different from a traditional organization? How will Worker Co-ops lead to a more sustainable future.  Are there limitations in raising capital for a Worker Co-op? How will employers benefit from an employee owned business? How will Worker Co-ops help mitigate the threats from technology impacting the future of work. This and many more questions answered on how Worker Co-ops will move labor more purposefully into the market as owners of the goods, services, and information they help produce.

Links referred to in episode

Nigel Forrest Arizona State University Bio

https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/nigel-forrest

Financing options for Worker Cooperatives

https://youtu.be/jUKsVkxvSuY

The Working World

https://www.theworkingworld.org/

Arizona State University School of Sustainability

https://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/

Why There's A Push To Grow Cooperative Businesses In Arizona

https://kjzz.org/content/743905/why-theres-push-grow-cooperative-businesses-arizona

Join the Emergence for an engaging conversation with recent Arizona State University graduate Carlos Castro to explore the value of labor. A wide range of topics surrounding the expression and consumption of labor are covered in this deep and probing conversation through the lens of a Gen Z thinker. How has the pandemic affected the labor market? How is more choice in the expression of labor affecting the supply to employers? How are worker coops an option to create a better synthesis between labor and provider? How will changes in labor patterns affect the future of transportation and city planning? How might this affect climate change?  This and much more in a deep dive into the value of labor beyond only the monetary.

LINKS shared by Carlos during conversation.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/01/small-businesses-workers-wages

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/07/how-government-learned-waste-your-time-tax/619568/

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/07/31/nimbyism-puts-the-kibosh-on-americas-largest-solar-power-plant/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/10/01/why-doesnt-u-s-recycle-nuclear-fuel/?sh=7dbdc919390f

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/climate-change-after-pandemic.html

https://humantransit.org/2012/09/the-photo-that-explains-almost-everything.html

https://tempeyimby.org/

Join the Emergence for a commentary from host J. Paul Duplantis on why discovery should not be exclusive to distribution. When Amazon accounts for 50% of all online purchases, should they hold exclusive domain over the discovery of what is effectively public information? When Google is responsible for 87% of all online searches, should they hold exclusive domain over discovery of the public data they collect? These and many more questions are explored in this evolving search for a less influenced and more free market.