Peer to peer is the relational dynamic of the distributed networks which is becoming the dominant organizational form of our technology and social organizations. Peer to peer gives rise to the emergence of peer production (the ability to produce in common outside the state or the corporation), peer governance (the new ways of managing such efforts), and peer property (the new ways of protecting the resulting commons from private appropriation). It is creating 2 main forms of value creation, the sharing economics of the proprietary web 2.0 platforms, which creates a tension between community and corporation; and commons-oriented peer production, which creates new types of reciprocal relations between the for-benefit communities and the for-profit companies. More crucially, peer to peer creates a post-capitalist dynamic that creates powerful social movements centered around the open/free, participatory, and commons-oriented practices and values. How will the dynamic tension between the new world and the old play out in the future, and can peer to peer be used as a powerful strategy for social change, based on the 'distribution of everything'?
