Insights on Institutions vs. Collaboration

This video from July 2005 has some great concrete examples on how the world has and is changing. Clay Shirky’s insights on Institutions vs. Collaboration will help enabled you to consider this change and importantly it’s potential to effect your current or future initiatives.

Parts I like:
- Mass Amateurisation of typically professional roles (touching on pros and cons)
- How he has to define what Flickr is and what Tagging is. (As this was in 2005)
- His reference to Kubler-Ross model (a.k.a. The 5 stages of grief / dying)

The cooperative systems he talks about have now been around a little longer and some relevant and effected institutions have moved further down the Kubler-Ross model.