Ameritocracy

“ Computation, storage and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person, and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture. … What this means is that for the first time since the industrial revolution … the most important components of the core economic activities … are in the hands of the population at large. „

Yochai Benkler | Open Source Economics

Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.

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