Mass Production Network
Mass production started with agriculture about 104,000 years ago when humans captured (or were captivated) by early cultivars. Today, we cheaply mass produce relatively useless, single-use items that pollute the Earth in more ways than one. To change this global culture, we need a new way of communicating material economic demand. Mass production networks may be the answer.
Nominal vs. Actual Demand
In the Garbage Can Model of Organization Choice, Michael D. Cohen et.al. describe how industrial organizations make decisions on behalf of consumers based on mass market research and thus market products suitable for "the masses"-- a fictional amalgamation of people in mathematical averages-- rather than any individual. Not explicitly stated in their text, it is this practice that leads to branded competition, deepening cultic or memetic rivalry-- covetousness-- wherein two or more people attempt to occupy the same characteristic or expressive "space". In particle physics, the Pauli Exclusion Principle shows how this sort of attempt at average uniformity is physically impossible without extreme circumstances.
When agriculture caught on as a human thing to do, everyone needed to eat but surely not everyone wanted to eat mostly grains and chickens, but the transformation gradually happened anyway. Today, humans eat less than 1% of the available species of plants on Earth because of the ease of cultivation and greater caloric yields of some species. As this transition happened, new diseases emerged. Malnutrition increased even among well fed populations.
Mass production networks (MPN) facilitate the fluid participation of any user, allowing the network to respond to demands for goods and services as required by the users, the users themselves being the mechanism of supply. MPN eliminate the class of individuals who do nothing within a community. At the prompt of their planetary network, users produce a small portion of what another user requires, crafting that portion to their needs through collaborative conversation rather than relying on the results of statistical definitions of the end user.
Because mass production networks (MPN) are distributed through the internet, planetary networks can develop network resolution to meet needs closer to home than previously possible. MPN also distribute a capacity for entrepreneurship, market awareness and signaling capability for private, new or distant communities. This is why at NTARI we seek to develop collaborative planetary development as a culture. With it, our descendants may cultivate the universe