The Future Now: Las Indias

In this interview, Shareable publisher Neal Gorenflo, John Robb of Global Guerrillas, and P2P foundation’s Michel Bauwens talk to David de Ugarte, one of the originators of the Spanish cyberpunk scene about his more recent work developing a multinational worker cooperative, Las Indias, that is a culmination of his community’s thinking and work for the last decade. Las Indias is the manifestation of a unique socio-economic philosophy that synthesizes many strains of thinking and culture including cyberpunk, anarchism, and cooperatives – all with a Spanish twist. It’s important because it points to a possible future for those who think outside of national boundaries and desire or need to take control of their own economic destiny. It’s a possible future that takes the centuries old logic of cooperatives and remixes it for the urban-centered, global network society we live in today.

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