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A book about how web culture and wikinomics will produce behavioural changes on industrial development Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Atlantic Books, 2008

With DIWO-Lab, people are both consumers and producers. It changes everything. Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave, Bantam Books, 1980

Tools for Conviviality. Ivan Illich, 1973. A very Important philosopher and a book about the idea of making tools which allow people to be autonomous and build links between users.

French philosopher Jacques Ellul, wrote one of the most reknown critique of Technology, The Technological Society, New York, Knopf, 1964 He explains that society lost control of Technology which is being completly autonomous. With DIWO-Lab, by making ourselves and rummaging into the design of things, we'll collectively master the Technology. From article "Jacques Ellul" Wikipedia (en): It is useless, he argues, to think that a distinction can be made between technique and its use, for techniques have specific social and psychological consequences independent of human desires. There can be no room for moral considerations in their use: "Not even the moral conversion of the technicians could make a difference. At best, they would cease to be good technicians. In the end, technique has only one principle, efficient ordering."

We should get inspiration of this book which explains how Fab lab, DIWO and web culture will transform society Jeremy Rifkin. The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World, Palgrave Macmillan 2011.

Here a Ted conference of Jeremy Rifkin, a very popular American economist, writer, public speaker and political advisor. He also wrote a book about the empathetic cracteristic of the deep human nature: The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness In a World In Crisis, 2010

Peter Kropotkin demonstrated in tis book that the evolution of society is not only governed by natural selection (Social Darwinism defended by sociologist Herbert Spencer), but also by cooperation and mutual aid.

Unglue is an initiative for books that could be tested within the FARM-Lab research, in the business model research part, to "unglue" usefull patents, by negotiating with owners of patents to by their patent entirely, and "unglue it". unglue.it aim in "ungluing" non-free contents by paying to have books under exclusive license to be "freed" Quote of their website : "What if you could give a book to everyone on earth? Get an ebook and read it on any device, in any format, forever? Give an ebook to your library, for them to share? Own DRM-free ebooks, legally? Read free ebooks, and know their creators had been fairly paid? " It works, and uses alternattive business model of crowdfunding to unglue. It couuld be used for hardware patents.