If you have something you are passionate about, engage a community that is passionate about the same thing, create a platform for this community to come together, think through every detail of community design and

But instead of collecting records of dead souls, the modern day Chichikovs may be driven to acquire more followers on Twitter or friends on Facebook or otherwise hoard social connections for money, fame, or reputation.

social rewards, social connections, recognition, and community reputation, i.e., social currencies.

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Our response has been to outsource citizenship, that is, participation in major decisions of our state, to specialists—a professional class of politicians aided by professional opinion makers and enabled by big-money interests—and allow them to make decisions for us.

Microlearning, an abundant ecology of

Another part of the transition to socialstructed creation we are likely to see is an explosion of new currencies, including social currencies, that will increasingly provide incentives and drive social creation.

This powerful combination gives us hope for not only making better decisions today but also fulfilling what is, according to Jonas Salk, the discoverer of penicillin, our greatest responsibility: to be “good ancestors,” people who maximize not only our individual well-being but also the well-being of a larger community today and of future

“Just put stuff out there” is her motto. “By making and prototyping things, whether it is a blog or a physical event, you are going to get so much that would not otherwise come into your line of view. When people look at your stuff, they might see the application much further than you can, or they see a unique story that would resonate with