By Charles Leadbeater
That is the ethic of the realm being created by way of YouTube and MySpace, Wikipedia and fb. We-Think is a rallying demand the shared energy of the internet to make society extra open and egalitarian.
We-Think studies on an remarkable wave of collaborative creativity as humans from California to China devise how one can interact which are extra democratic, effective and artistic. This advisor to the hot tradition of mass participation and innovation is a ebook like no different: it begun first on-line via a special scan in collaborative creativity related to thousands of individuals around the globe.
The new release transforming into up with the internet usually are not content material to stay spectators. they need to be avid gamers and this is often their slogan: we expect for that reason we are.
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