a “let's not talk about social media but instead talk about why we should talk about social...
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A discussion of the technology changes that have lead to a revolution in how we organize labor that can be leveraged to create new approaches to problem solving, knowledge sharing, learning, and social change. Some examples included.TRANSCRIPT
A “let’s not talk about social media but instead talk
about why we should talk about social media”
talk
• Cd’s
• 1st class mail
• Bike messengers
• Newspapers
• Linux Platform Stack $10.8 billion
• 204 million lines of code
• 60,000 person-years of development time
“The rate of change in the [Linux] kernel is high and increasing, with almost 10,000 patches going into recent kernel releases.
These releases each contain the work of nearly 1000 developers representing well over 100 corporations.
…over 70% of all kernel development is demonstrably done by developers who are being paid for their work”
Today Linux services and hardware represent billions of dollars in revenue, and IBM estimates it saves nearly a billion dollars per year over what it would cost to develop a Linuxlike operating system on its own.
www.wikinomics.com
Wikipedia size & users
English articles: 2,811,142
Average revisions: 105
Total wiki pages: 16,238,772
Total admins: 1,633
Total users: 9,292,473
UTC time: 20:00 on 2009-Mar-27
Be openShare
NetworkParticipate
Trust (assume risk)Start small
Publish then filterAlways in beta
21st Century Physics Flexbook: A Compilation of Contemporary and Emerging Technologies,
Commonwealth of VA
Dave [email protected]