Don Tapscott And Anthony D. Williams

Today, billions of connected people around the planet can cooperate to make just about anything that requires human creativity, a computer, and an Internet connection. Unlike before, where the costs of production were high, people can collaborate and share their creations at very little cost. This means that individuals needn't rely on markets or capital-intensive firms to make or trade all of the goods and services they desire. In fact, a growing proportion of the things we value (including newspapers) can now be produced by us or in cooperation with the people we interact with socially - simply because we want to.

Don Tapscott and Andrew D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, Chapter 3 (The Peer Pioneers; A New Mode of Production)


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