In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.

"In Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University in the Fall of 2007, facing pancreatic cancer and the likelihood that he would only live a month or two, Randy summed up his life’s wisdom for his kids (then 1,2, and 5)."

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. As he points out, humans have been banding together to work collectively since our days of hunting mastodons.

Mr. Semler, 46, is the leading proponent and most tireless evangelist of what has variously been called participative management, corporate democracy, and “the company as village.”

Geneva, Switzerland, 16 January 2008 - The World Economic Forum today unveiled the programme for its Annual Meeting in Davos, including the key participants, themes and goals. The overarching theme of the meeting, which will take place from 23 to 27 January, is "The Power of Collaborative Innovation".

The Collaborative Act Studio is a process driven theater company dedicated to the growth of the professional actor throughout production, expansion of cultural arts and presenting theater as the most engaging and stimulating art form the modern world has to offer ... Theater is nothing, if not a collaborative act.

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