Name: The new power of collaboration
Uploaded: 2008-02-11T02:39:00Z
Duration: 19 min 17 s
Description: Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.

The new power of collaboration

Human history is marked by a steady shift from survival-of-the-fittest competition to forms of cooperation that unleash new kinds of wealth and possibility. From the alphabet to the Internet, advances in communication have enabled collective action, sparking revolutions in science, democracy, and economics. Today, open source projects, supercomputing collectives, and peer-to-peer production reveal that self-interest and shared benefit can power remarkable achievements. Even countless volunteers have created over a million Wikipedia articles in just a few years, proving the power of collaborative effort.

Collaboration, Not Competition, Is Shaping the Future of Progress

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TED Stage Talk

Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration