Anarchy and Technology

[MajesticVagrant]

I was wondering about how technology would work in an anarchy. I can imagine Internet working as the communities working together to put up web system, but how would something like TV work? Or movies? My best guess would be communities having movie theatres, and film makers could send in films. Would that just be crappy trying-to-be-artsy movies? I don't know. So the question is, how would technology like tv, mp3 type devices, Internet, electronics of sorts, movies, ect. Would most of it exist? I know it wouldn't in primitivism, but what about the other types?

[Shotgun Opera]

I would assume they would work much the same as the independent media scene works today and it's actually quite a vibrant scene. We may see the multi-million dollar blockbusters disappear (and I think that might be a positive thing) but you're never going to stop people from creating things and sharing them.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Look at the open source movement for an example; Linux in particular.

Decentralized, collaborative, need-based innovation, freedom to work on any of the projects, absent of currency or profit.

Apply that model to other industries

I have a feeling the phenomenon of shitty-sequels-to-profit-off-the-success-of-the-original will disappear. So no shitty movie sequels based on profit seeking movie studios. There could be shitty movie sequels based on poor decisions and poor writing, though. And I'm sure the artistic and independent movie scenes will explode, as this situation would allow everyone access to the equipment to create movies. As of today, cameras, film, and casting costs are prohibitively expensive for a lot of creative-but-poor people.

[Winkers Fons]

I wouldn't be worried about the actual media that is created but I'm not so sure about the physical infrastructure used to transmit it. Wouldn't you say that there needs to be some sort of centralized administration to handle large scale infrastructure such as the internet, power lines and cross country highways?

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I wouldn't be worried about the actual media that is created but I'm not so sure about the physical infrastructure used to transmit it. Wouldn't you say that there needs to be some sort of centralized administration to handle large scale infrastructure such as the internet, power lines and cross country highways?
You'll be hard-pressed to find an anarchist who is against, say, a non-hierarchical federation of engineers who maintain infrastructure in a given region, yet are completely accountable to the people in said region and are immediately revocable in a second's notice.

The only ones who would be against such a formation are "anarchist" capitalists and they aren't anarchists.

Some anarchists advocate a more organized form of federation in the theory of Anarchist-Communist Technocracy. I'm ambivalent on the nature of this theory, mostly because I'm not familiar with its details. I alternately feel that it may pave the way for a state and that it's a somewhat redundant subset of anarchist communism. The mod/admin Noxion (I think that's their name) is a proponent of this theory. I'd go to her/him for more information.

[kuros]

Off course it would still exist, there is no reason it should't

[kuros]

The only thing i would be worried about is the cost of making movies (all the special effects, expensive cameras, expensive sets etc), but i guess we could just as well watch cartoons and animated films