Co-opting the creative revolution

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from BBC News
"Digital technology is providing people with the tools to produce and share content like never before, and it is set to throw the relationship between them and institutions into turmoil, say experts.

"I am predicting 50 years of chaos," says leading digital thinker Clay Shirky. "Loosely organised groups will be increasingly given leverage."

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At a time when companies are grappling with how to make cool new stuff, it is the rising tide of creative collaborators working through the channel and tools of the net that is showing the way ahead.

"It is when the net combines with these passionate consumers that you get the explosion of creative collaboration," says Mr Leadbeater.

"Out of that you get the need for better organisations; how do you organise yourself without organisation?"
"For the first time since the industrial revolution, the most important means and components of core economies are in the hands of the population at large," explains Yale Law professor Yochai Benkler.
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What these power tools enable is the ability for people with small ideas to make them real, share them, and let them grow.