Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

The result is that a growing range of products and services can be produced abundantly, nearly for free, unleashing potential such as open-source design, free online education, and distributed manufacturing. In some key sectors the twenty-first-century collaborative commons has started to complement, compete with, and even displace the market. What

I have observed that in the new collaborative economy, where we are networked and resources are highly accessible, the following are almost always true. The four principles on the next page will carry us inevitably to the collaborative economy. The real question is how we prepare our workforce, our government, and ourselves for this new, inevitable

What is the future of business when technology-enabled networks and marketplaces let people choose when and how much they want to work?