Recent Technologies of Cooperation

A reader of my essay Anarchy and Source Code asked me recently, what do I see as the connection between classical anarchy political theory and recent technologies of cooperation? I answered him the following:

„I think that classical anarchy theory based upon the freedom of cooperation. People should get together voluntarily and think about how we can care for all people. The gag is, that we should think about how we can care generally for all humans not particularly for things like economic growth (of the U.S.A or of Germany or of Europe …), interests of business companies, national interests and so on. For this aim, a global assistance of everyone, technologies of cooperation are very helpful, because they are freely and globally available, like Free Software and the Internet. With this tools you can create a new world of mutual assistance, but you can also use them for economic interests, to improve the cooperation inside of global companies like Siemens, Microsoft or Daimler-Chrysler. They do not use recent technologies of cooperation in order to care for humans, they use them for their business interests. Business interests never had anything to do with care for mankind, for the inhabitants of a nation or for the employees of those companies; it has always to do with exploitation of the latter for the aims of business.“