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-===== Basis of Free Software and Open Hardware Movement?=====
+====== Basis of Free Software and Open Hardware Movement? ======
 It is all about starting to Think Like a Commoner and in-fact becoming a commoner by enriching, strengthening and protecting the Commons. In case of this movement, it is very specific to Digital Commons.
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-For instance, the Internet which is a result of the massive volunteered effort by humans homed information and communication revolution. Such a social emergence cannot be confined to a history locked with a single country or nation, as if they are the sole funders and facilitators for such results. One needs to look at history carefully and closely. One can learn how technocracy even for projected good intentions and forecasts have gone unnoticed. One need to know and understand the socialistic triumph for connecting computers, automating management and redecentralize economic planning and actions were tried with control systems, computer science, mathematics and economics.
+For instance, the Internet which is a result of the massive volunteered effort by humans homed information and communication revolution. Such a social emergence cannot be confined to a history locked with a single country or nation, as if they are the sole funders and facilitators for such results. One needs to look at history carefully and closely. One can learn how technocracy even for projected good intentions and forecasts have gone unnoticed. One need to know and understand the socialistic triumph for connecting computers, automating management and re-decentralize economic planning and actions were tried with control systems, computer science, mathematics and economics.
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+**Read** : {{ :internyet_why_the_soviet_union_did_not_build_a_nationwide_computernetwork.pdf | Why Soviet Union did not build a Nation-wide Computer Network}}. Those who have learned control systems, computing, mathematics, economics, complexity theory, graph theory, modeling, will have some parallel to the cybernetics and connectionism. To Control something is fine after measurement. To command something or someone to keep something bigger in control becomes technocratic. That too measurement must not leave its scope and become mass surveillance as capitalism does now in the name of market competition, survival, branding, better service, etc...
+Whether the intentions are pro-scientific or not, technocratic solutions always face the problems such as center point of failure, reduced democracy to extreme colonization, informational slavery, power asymmetry, ignorance, citizens being reduced to subjects and further to objects. Thus a careful and participative deployment of technology with the human-centric design is necessary.
+The article is shared to read and learn, and not to bash soviet Union's triumph with false liberal statements and half understood historical view. Infact, one has to understand the history of computer science and mathematics is not centralized to USA alone.
 ==== Communication is Aid ====