
Yochai Benkler on open-source economics, and Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration.

About Beams and Struts, collective intelligence, and why this is the most exciting time to be alive in human history.

How are cellphones, Twitter and Facebook changing history? Watch this TED talk by author Clay Shirky and find out.

In his article on Egypt Jeremy heralded the birth of a planetary culture. In this TED talk, the courageous French street artist JR seems to display just such a planetary outlook, revealing an underlying universal humanity in some of the most dangerous, poor and forgotten human communities on Earth. And in his TED Prize wish, he asks us to take an active part in his global art project. Inspiring stuff.
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Lessons from Egypt on the growth and power of decentralized networks in social organization and protest.
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