Innovation through Cooperation

Cooperation


In this 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning. Decentralized technologies like peer-to-peer, wireless networks, social software and open-source development are enabling new kinds of cooperative structures to get things done. They may augment or replace institutionalized structures which are self-limiting. Groups and institutions may be their own worst enemy especially where innovation and creativity are concerned.