One part of the Caretaker Tech Project is a collection of economic science fiction stories set in early 22nd-century Europe, shattered by the effects of the climate crisis. By that time, some capitalist domains had been transformed into domains of sharing, voluntary care, and sustainability through the so-called Commons Act. The stories center on the digital sphere of Caretaker Tech, which serves as a backbone of an alternative economy, and on the Caretakers — a new kind of people who emerged from the non-capitalist domains, living a life similar to that of our ancestors before the rise of civilization, yet adapted to the circumstances of the modern world. See: Story: Setting.
The scenario may be science fiction, but the Caretaker Tech Project is about bringing such a digital sphere into being.Caretaker Tech will be a distributed application infrastructure based on shared resources and voluntary cooperation. While it will initially address isolated individuals and communities, it shall foster a way of life beyond market and state in the long run. As no one knows the shape Caretaker Tech will actually have, the second part of the project is an extensively description of it through assumptions, that need to be adjusted according further insights. See: Assumptions on Caretaker Tech.
The Caretaker Tech Project is not about writing code, but to support activists working in its direction. Therefore existing software projects, methods of information technology as well as general thoughts helpful to achieve such a digital sphere should be discovered and promoted as the projects third part. See the research section: Thoughts, Methods and Components.
The most relevant research, together with the best stories and the current state of the assumptions, will be gathered into a book.
All texts within the project are release in a Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial - Share Alike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. The reason for the NC-SA restriction is the option to sell the printing rights for the collection to a publisher and therefore reach a wider audience.