The Open Source Economy

This is a great talk from the TED Conference. Yochai Benkler, a thought-leader on networks and collaboration  talks about how the Internet is laying the groundwork for the next phase of human organization.

In many ways it seems like we’re coming full circle to a pre-industrial age sensibility by doing things that we like to do as opposed to doing things that we must. Basically we’re contributing to the commons as individuals strictly for the love of the activity and the community and not strictly in pursuit of profit. We’re even beginning to trade goods and services directly without currency as an intermediary.