Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

Steven Johnson, now taking his emergence / good ideas knowledge and projecting it into the future. Here he looks at the success of more recent crowd self-organization phenomena like Kickstarter or websites where amateurs solve medical mysteries. He talks about how good ideas usually emerge from the fringe of a network instead of the centre. He presents in quite convincing examples how this “Peer progressivism” could revolutionize economics, politics, health, education ...