Charles Leadbeater

.net: What will the future be like as predicted by We-Think?
Charles Leadbeater: One in which more people than ever can be participants, in contributing their knowledge and ideas to larger collaborative projects. Culture, commerce and politics will be increasingly inflected by a growing culture of participation and collaboration.

.net: The internet has driven collaborative culture for years, Web 2.0 has been around for ages – why is it still revolutionary?
CL: It may have been around for ages for you and perhaps me, but for most people it’s still quite new. The really interesting thing, I think, is the way that people are experimenting with something more than just networking online. We’re experimenting with creating new ways to organise ourselves, often without top down, hierarchical organisations of all. What is new is not the technology but what we’re learning to achieve with our forms of social organisation.

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