Descrição
For readers of Ars Technica, technologies like online forums, blogs, mailing lists, Meetup, and Wikipedia are old hat. Weve been using them—and arguing about them—for the better part of a decade. But Shirky contends that the really big impacts are still to come, as these technologies spread to our less geeky relatives, friends, and neighbors. As the Internet radically reduces the costs of collective action for everyone, it will transform the relationship between ordinary individuals and the large, hierarchical institutions that were a dominant force in 20th-century societies.
