CLOUD CULTURE: THE PROMISE AND THE THREAT
by Charles Leadbeater
The Cloud Culture EquationMore cultural heritage stored in digital form.+More accessible to more people.+People better equipped with more tools to add creatively to the collection.=Exponential growth in mass cultural expression=Cloud Culture.
Cloud culture should be a rare and delicate mix: more decentralised, plural and collaborative; less hierarchical, proprietary and money driven; the boundaries between amateur and professional, consumer and producer, grassroots and mainstream are breached, if not erased. Open source software communities and collaborative science, based on shared data sources and open access journals, point the way for what will be possible in other areas.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/leadbeater10/leadbeater10_index.html
The article is not entirely optimistic, though.
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