When Push Comes to Pull: The New Economy and Culture of Networking Technolog

A Report of the Fourteenth Annual Aspen Institute Roundtable on Information Technology

Aspen Institute , 2006 

David Bollier, rapporteur. The author considers how communications, economics, business, cultural and social institutions are changing from mass production to an individualized “pull” model. When Push Comes to Pull describes the co-existence of both push (top down or hierarchical) and pull (bottom up or networked) models—how they interact, evolve, and overlay each other in the networked information economy.

The report explores the application of “pull” to the worlds of business and economics, the content and intellectual property industries, the emergence of an economy of the commons, and personal and social dynamics including leadership in a pull world. It also touches on the application of the pull model to learning systems, the military in the form of network centric warfare, and the provision of government services.

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