Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption. Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything | Video on TED. Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks. Tim Berners-Lee: The year open data went worldwide | Video on TE. Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world. Alisa Miller shares the news about the news. Way-new collaboration: Howard Rheingold on TED. 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.
As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons. (Recorded February 2005 in Monterey, California. Duration: 19:30.) Watch Howard Rheingold’s talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances. Read more about Howard Rheingold on TED.com. NEW: Read the transcript >> I’m here to enlist you [picture of Rheingold pointing at you like Uncle Sam’s drafting for the army] [laughter in audience] in helping reshape the story about humans and other critters get things done.
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