Name: How web video powers global innovation
Uploaded: 2010-09-14T07:42:00Z
Duration: 18 min 36 s
Description: TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness. And for TED, it means the dawn of a whole new chapter ...

Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation

How web video powers global innovation

TED's Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness. And for TED, it means the dawn of a whole new chapter ...

The explosive growth of online video has sparked a new era of crowd-accelerated innovation, spreading skills and ideas at an unprecedented scale. One six-year-old, known online as Lil Demon, mastered dance moves once thought impossible for his age—all by learning from web videos. When communities openly share their best work, the cycle of learning and improvement accelerates worldwide. Radical openness is powering a shift from top-down teaching to many-to-many learning.