Hive Mind

Collaboration

Arbitration

"Ownership of an idea"

Era

Individual

Authorship

Hive Mind

Collectivism

"Meta"

Authorship

Artificial Intelligence

Content

Crowdsourcing

"Cheap labor"

Hobbyist

Collaboration

Compensation

"If the printing press empowered the individual, the digital world empowers collaboration."

"It bears mentioning that if Wikipedia is a valuable resource, that is because a lot of people — untold thousands, in fact — are busting tail to make it that way."

"One of McLuhan’s genius insights was his understanding of how the shift from an oral culture to one based on print gave rise to our modern notion of the individual as the originator and owner of particular ideas.”

"Reading a Wikipedia entry is like reading the bible closely."

"The question isn't just one of authentication and accountability, though those are important, but
something more subtle. A voice should be sensed as a whole."

"The beauty of the Internet is that it connects people. The value is in the other people. If we start to believe the Internet itself is an entity that has something to say, we're devaluing those people and making ourselves into idiots."

"The solvers are not who you might expect. Many are hobbyists working from their proverbial garage..."

"InnoCentive and iStockphoto are labor markets for specialized talents, but just about anyone possessing basic literacy can find something to do on Mechanical Turk. It’s crowdsourcing for the
masses."