The February 2010 issue of Wired Magazine in Italian runs a cover story on Netsukuku , a fractal address system for a cloud of user maintained, linked computers forming a p2p network. Telecom Italy, asked to finance Netsukuku as a start-up, has declined to do so because the project is still in the prototype stage, but Andrea Lo Pumo has been awarded a scholarship, financed by Telecom, to study Advanced Computer Science at Cambridge University. Links visited to compile this article: The Netsukuku project is based on the idea of exploiting the potential of WiFi connectivity, linking the PCs of wireless communities to act as routers, forming a network that could become as large or larger than the current Internet.

In October 2005, Seedling, the magazine of GRAIN, published a series of contributions on the ways in which people are resisting the push for monopoly rights over information in different sectors. These companies can deny others access to knowledge and the benefits of science. They interviewed a ten-person panel includes people working in the fields of free and open software (FOSS), access to medicines, seeds, communications and the media. (GRAIN GRAIN is a small international non-profit organisation that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled

Stuart Kauffman, for instance, the great champion of “order for free,” or emergent, self-organizing complexity in the life sciences, has no compunctions about claiming that his results apply for the capitalist “econosphere” as well as for the biosphere (See his Reinventing the Sacred, chapter 11). The highly esteemed futurist Kevin Kelly, a frequent contributor to Wired magazine, has long celebrated network-mediated capitalism, analogized to biological complexity, as a miracle of emergent self-organization; just recently, however, he has praised Web 2.0-mediated “socialism” in the same