Future Perfect

as Darwin himself understood, webs of collaboration and open exchange have always been central to evolutionary progress, never more so than in the history of our intensely social species.

Some, such as the Australian service Pozible, share Kickstarter’s focus on creative ideas; others tap into large networks of patrons to support nonprofit charities, such as the site Causes.com

Instead of writing, say, a $10,000 check to the local tax collector, you’d be allowed to “spend” some portion of your taxes on the Brickstarter projects that you felt were worthwhile.

True markets display almost all of the core principles of the peer-progressive worldview. As

What the peer progressive wants to do is reward people for coming up with good ideas—and reward them for sharing those ideas.

But this capacity for reinvention does not mean the Internet and its descendants are without affordances altogether. In fact, one of the Net’s affordances flows directly out of its shape-shifting powers. Because the software networks are more malleable than earlier forms of media, they tend to engage more people in the process of deciding how they

The Sternins were not there to provide outside expertise; they were there to amplify the expertise that already existed in the community.

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So what does the Internet want? It wants to lower the costs for creating and sharing information.