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Welcome to We-think: mass innovation, not mass production
We Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.
Ideas take life when they are shared. That is why the web is such a potent platform for creativity and innovation.
It's also at the heart of why the web should be good for : democracy, by giving more people a voice and the ability to organise themselves; freedom, by giving more people the opportunity to be creative and equality, by allowing knowledge to be set free.
But sharing also brings with it dilemmas.
It leaves us more open to abuse and invasions of privacy.
Participation is not always a good thing: it can just create a cacophony.
Collaboration is sustained and reliable only under conditions which allow for self organisation.
Everywhere we turn there will be struggles between people who want to freely share - music, films, ideas, information - and those who want to control this activity, either corporations who want to make money or governments who fear debate and democracy. This conflict between the rising surge of mass collaboration and attempts to retain top down control will be one of the defining battles of our time, from Communist China, to Microsoft's battle with open source and the music industry's desperate rearguard action against the web.
Below you can download the first three chapters of We Think.
And if you want to leave a comment or contact me just go to the adjacent pages on the site.
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George BrettWe Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.
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Sibrenne WagenaarWe Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information. The first three chapters are available on this site.
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Ralph KerleLeadbetters attempt to create a book through collaboration a good bibliography as well on creativity books
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M C Morganv. chap 3 for bloggy media. notable for being a draft posted for comment and for its thesis: "Most creativity is collaborative. It combines different views, disciplines and insights in new ways. The opportunities for creative collaboration are expanding"
socialpractices erhetoric ebook web2.0 wiki wikipedia authorship en3177
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reinkoInteresting writings on the web 2.0's effects everywhere, and taking it the next step: asking for comments on the drafts of his book. Good idea, unfortunately unuseable in my browser (FF2.0)
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Opensource ObscureImmersive multi user computer games, such as SL, which depend on high levels of user participation and creativity are booming (...) these new forms of mass, creative collaboration announce the arrival of a society in which participation will be the key or
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David JenningsOnline draft of Leadbetter's book, on which we can comment.
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We-Think: the power of mass creativity is about what the rise of the likes of Wikipedia and Youtube, Linux and Craigslist means for the way we organise ourselves, not just in digital businesses but in schools and hospitals, cities and mainstream corporations. My argument is that these new forms of mass, creative collaboration announce the arrival of a society in which participation will be the key organising idea rather than consumption and work. People want to be players not just spectators, part of the action, not on the sidelines.
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