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I think you all need to read this then go buy the book and read it too.
The internet is enabling the cognitive surplus to be placed on the same exponential curve that the digital circuit has been screaming down for the past five decades.
We are most certainly living during a key period of human history. I'd always argued that the digital circuit was the most important invention of all humankind because:
a) it was the first invention to be non-specific. You program it to do whatever you want
b) because it's non-specific one use is that it can be used to make better versions of itself - thereby placing it on the famous exponential curve
c) because it's non-specific it can also be used to supplement every other scientific endeavor - placing all scientific endeavors on the same exponential curve it exists on.
The creation of the internet and "web 2.0" is allowing for the harnessing of the cognitive surplus and so now...
d) the billion or so humans connected together can use their cognitive surplus to feed into the collective
Sure, maybe 90% of it will be crap, but 10% of a very, very large number is still a lot of productivity being harnessed.
I've been reading "Here Comes Everybody" and it had a very interesting analysis why the current sex abuse scandals aren't going away while the previous ones in past decades vanished like pebbles thrown into a still pond.
You may want to read Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky. While it doesn't specifically detail how to organise people, it does explain the theory behind group formation, how new technologies make group formation easier, and the things that are required to get a group to coalesce, exist for a long time, and work towards a common goal.
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