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Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to another episode of It could

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Speaker 1: happen here once again. Who's still around myself Andrew and

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Speaker 1: also joined with Garrison is here as well, and me mea,

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Speaker 1: I'm also here. And of the things that I've been

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Speaker 1: thinking about lately, because I've been reading a lot more fiction, UM,

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Speaker 1: a lot of things and these sorts of sci fi's

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Speaker 1: fair particularly UM some Activia, but the UM, some orcum,

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Speaker 1: I've just been thinking about a lot of these concepts

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Speaker 1: And what is more sci fi than the idea of

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Speaker 1: of the digital would um as of late as you know,

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Speaker 1: really brings together, um a variety of people, variety of

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Speaker 1: since the sort of resources that might be um limited

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Speaker 1: basically without many limitations. Um. And instead of really seizing

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Speaker 1: We're all these uh digital margritcoporations, these social media giants

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Speaker 1: dominated how we communicate with each other, how we tend

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Speaker 1: of the internet. What has become to mein stream things

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Speaker 1: But I'm not a big fan of that. Idea of

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Speaker 1: think that among all the other things that I've discussed

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Speaker 1: as important because the commons, uh, the rather, the inclusion

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Speaker 1: will be required in that transition away from capitalism towards

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Speaker 1: a more collective, more communal, um, more sustainable way of life.

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Speaker 1: For those who um, I guess just tuning in this

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Speaker 1: I'll take a moment to, you know, explain what exactly

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Speaker 1: the commons are. The commons referred to the resources accessible

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Speaker 1: based on common pool resources or cprs, which is any

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Speaker 1: instead of being exchanged as commodities, you know, these resources

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Speaker 1: Martin Scorsese, is gonetro of no? Okay? So in three

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Speaker 1: Martin Scorsese developed this film called Gone. It's a historical

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Speaker 1: only the greatest Mafia movie ever made. On that tagline,

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Speaker 1: like a really comprehensive document of gone shureoff law. Um.

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Speaker 1: Things are added and just things added in complete seriousness.

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Speaker 1: But it's just a thing that exists. It's a thing

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Speaker 1: They all sort of manifestations of, you know, human desire

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Speaker 1: I think another manifestation of the digital commons in a

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Speaker 1: to knowledge, you know, Wikipedia just one example. Of course,

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Speaker 1: dystopian ruins of Twitter. Um so yeah, anyway, it could

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