Decentralised Model in Detail - Open Source Desing Repositories
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Open-Source Design Repositories
Software world has mostly moved to an open-source model where companies pay for support, training and dedicated tools that make them easier to use. As design of all kinds of products are essentially digital products (software of different kind), one can assume that over time all of the above-mentioned energy generation and manufacturing know-how will be open sourced and available for decentralized communities/areas.
This means that large global repositories will come to exists containing instructions how to manufacture all of these products and chemicals. Repositories also contain machine learning models for predicting upcoming issues, finding root causes for problems and generating instructions to correct problems locally or even doing corrective actions automatically. Same goes for design blueprints to organize larger systems like food production, build water purification plant, waste processing, educational material and so on. Most content (designs, sw, ml models) is open source and services are executed on crowdsourced computing resources.
The earlier global repositories post contains a list showing what type of “commons” these repositories contain. Just for convenience, it is copied here:
Health Opens: open machine learning models for diagnostics services, digital recipes and online courses for producing your own medicines, digital models for self-monitoring health and optimizing nutrition.
Education Opens: Course contents, interactive models, educational games, simulation software.
Food Opens: Designs and online courses how to grow your own food in vertical gardens, bioreactor designs, open-source microbes for producing food like egg white or milk protein, designs and microbes for producing food directly from air, how to use food 3D printers to produce edible portions. Marketplaces for swapping seeds.
Energy opens: Designs and training to manufacture your own windmills, solar cells batteries, inverters, chargers.
Water opens. Modular purification and sanitation systems
Infra opens: Light pole designs, modular road and rail road “legos”. Designs for pop-up bridges and harbors, electric aviation field blueprints
Manufacturing Opens: Digital designs for making appliances, tools and products, houses, vehicles, how to make your 3D printers and CNC machines
Recycling opens: Instructions and designs for tool to help recycle.
Sports Opens: and online materials for making your own sports equipment like rackets, table tennis tables and nets, surf boards, small boats, etc.
Communications Opens: unlicensed bands and designs for communications equipment
Computing opens: open-source processors, electronics
Enterprise Management Opens: Ready to go models for starting your own DAO, enterprise, association etc. based on a wide variety of operating models.
Enterprise Operations Opens: Software for automating essential enterprise work, resource planning, hiring, marketing, billing, machine learning models for creating brands etc.
Legal Opens: A set of well-working policies expressed as automated code.
Trust Opens: Trust is created through the identity and reputation services. It is improved by personalized view into the markets and interactions with the Onion Rater.
Language Opens: Translation models between languages.
Software Opens. What github is today.
Culture Opens: Films, art no longer under copyright or open-sourced. Code for generating art, music etc.
Information Opens: Common repositories for data sharing stored on decentralized infrastructure. Any non-personal data generated by the society. Personal data may be available on sand-box model or using federated learning of cohorts in a system where value generated flows back mostly to individuals who have shared their data.
All of the above are essentially digital goods change to symbiotic good opens up their potential. The fact that they are accessible digitally and decentralized world has native and global mechanisms for value capture, makes it possible to reward contributors.
The nature of physical public goods will also change towards self-ownership:
Infrastructure: Self-owning logistics fleets, harbors, rail tracks, airports, warehouses etc.
These repositories may use subscription model like for music and movies now, they may be completely free or some may sell individual items. Contributors need to be rewarded and decisions made how the projects go forwards and how collected funds are used. We’ll take a look at that next, but before it.
Search in repos
As the repos will contain large amounts of contributions, the question arises how to find relevant stuff for me. This is the same problem that any centralized web2 project has and there is lot of material already available how to apply AI to the problem.
For social media we showed an algorithm called Onion Rater that uses co-centric circles of influence around user based on how close they are in the social graph to the user. To prioritize stuff my nearest and dearest are interested much over random robots from an adversarial nation to put it bluntly.
Something similar would likely make sense here albeit the social graph being used would have to be occupation/interest related, not necessarily relationship by kinship.
Value unlocked
To understand why so much value is unlocked by open sourcing designs, you need to look at categories of goods and how anti-rival goods (like open source) are different than anything else. Shortly said they have this peculiar feature of become more valuable the more they get used.