The following video is a virtual choir of 200 voices from 12 countries that were brought together by conductor/composer Eric Whitacre. The project has all the attributes of what we expect of networked organizations: Disintermediation of space and time, asynchronous collaboration, granular well-specified tasks, and modularity. If this can be done, what else could we
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Co-authored by Sofia Elizondo and Philipp Mueller This year in our leadership course students came up with new questions that we had not heard before: why do you teach us leadership, if value is created through the collaborative efforts of open source communities? And how does your class help us to foster such collaboration? While
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It is always good to re-read Kevin Kelly’s Rules for the New Economy (article came out in 1997, the book in 1999). My Tec de Monterrey students will remember that we read it in 2003 as “contemporary political theory.” The following passage is taken from the 1999 book: A trillion dumb chips connected into a
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Kevin Kelly argues that technology is deterministic, but we have choices about how to shape it. And we find out about these choices by using technologies… Kevin Kelly is famous for reframing how we think about the web, the economy, and humanity. So make a cup of coffee and enjoy! …and while you are at
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This is a guest article by Sebastian Haselbeck. Feedback, to someone my age, is everything, whether we are aware of it or not. Everything we do on the web has instant repercussions, creates immediate reaction, which prompts counter-reaction, back-pedalling or refinement: there is a feedback loop in most things we do on the web. We
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Alex Schellong and I wrote down a longer conversation we have been having over the years and published it in the Harvard International Review: The evolution of modern society is marked by continuous rise of government size, obligations and market interactions. According to Juergen Habermas, the expansion of the state into more and more private
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