Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration

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There is a full transcript of Howard Rheingold’s TEDtalk 2005 on Way-new Collaboration. A talk 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.

Keywords:

open source
peer-to-peer production
biology
ecology
ecosystems
prisoner's dilemma
tragedy of the commons
ultimatum game
tit-for-tat
enabling technologies
swarm computing
Wikipedia, BitTorrent, Toyota, Linux, Mozilla, SETI, Folding@home

Technologies of COOPERATION & SHARING economies

Easy to use: e-mail, blogs, wikis
Enable connections: web of links, markets are conversations, blogrolls create blogosphere
Open: no license needed to publish
Group forming: eBay, Wikipedia, buddy lists
Self-instructing: view source, blog clients
Leverage Self-Interest: Page Rank

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