Comments on: Public Private Property http://thornet.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/public-private-property/ Michelle Thorne on life, the internets, and everything. Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:21:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: thornet http://thornet.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/public-private-property/#comment-233 thornet Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:12:04 +0000 http://thornet.wordpress.com/?p=218#comment-233 @tarkowski, thanks for bringing up two very good points. The guys running Public Private Property are toying with delivery and insurance as well. The delivery, as you suggest, could be solved by a dense network, and with an efficient coordination that tasks people with pick&up and drop&off (say, for instance, you're in Kreuzberg, and you can grab Item X for User Y on your way home to Friedrichshain). As for the insurance, the PPP group is also looking to develop a shared insurance model, where members contribute to a collective pot, and if anything breaks in use or in transit, the repair money comes out of this shared account. @tarkowski, thanks for bringing up two very good points. The guys running Public Private Property are toying with delivery and insurance as well. The delivery, as you suggest, could be solved by a dense network, and with an efficient coordination that tasks people with pick&up and drop&off (say, for instance, you’re in Kreuzberg, and you can grab Item X for User Y on your way home to Friedrichshain).

As for the insurance, the PPP group is also looking to develop a shared insurance model, where members contribute to a collective pot, and if anything breaks in use or in transit, the repair money comes out of this shared account.

]]> By: tarkowski http://thornet.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/public-private-property/#comment-227 tarkowski Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:39:55 +0000 http://thornet.wordpress.com/?p=218#comment-227 I've had the same idea once and after thinking about it, it seems to me it is not feasible. The technology part is solvable, but the human part is difficult. For many tools, it would be too "costly" to have to go far to get them, so you'd need a very dense network. Which forces you to network with people other than friends, whom you might not want to lend a tool? Also tools break, some system of insurance would be necessary. This is doable in principle, There are probably ways to do bottom-up insurance (that have already been developed 100+ years ago!) but, again, has not been done in practice. I’ve had the same idea once and after thinking about it, it seems to me it is not feasible. The technology part is solvable, but the human part is difficult. For many tools, it would be too “costly” to have to go far to get them, so you’d need a very dense network. Which forces you to network with people other than friends, whom you might not want to lend a tool? Also tools break, some system of insurance would be necessary. This is doable in principle, There are probably ways to do bottom-up insurance (that have already been developed 100+ years ago!) but, again, has not been done in practice.

]]> By: Street With a View « = thornet = http://thornet.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/public-private-property/#comment-138 Street With a View « = thornet = Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:02:59 +0000 http://thornet.wordpress.com/?p=218#comment-138 [...] these thoughts cluster around object hyperlinking and locative art. Could we, for example, make a “Couchsurfing” for household tools? Or, what about a tour through a city be complemented by audio guides, triggered by GPS to tell [...] [...] these thoughts cluster around object hyperlinking and locative art. Could we, for example, make a “Couchsurfing” for household tools? Or, what about a tour through a city be complemented by audio guides, triggered by GPS to tell [...]

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