FROM OPEN SCIENCE TO OPEN TECHNOLOGY

This article discusses some of the most important aspects of current movements for open science and technology and their relationship with peer production. In the realm of science we focus on the issues surrounding the publishing system and link them to a broader process of increasing privatization and commodification of science. Open technology is traced back to open science principles - rather than to free software, as usual narratives do. Different instances of open technology are analyzed in the context of hackerspaces, through an international ethnographic research, and the concept of unfinished artifacts is proposed in order to grasp the social and political implications of this new way to undertake technological design.