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Mass Innovation and Disruptive Change

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the look-to-the-internets-for-inspiration dept.

bart_scriv writes "The new head of MIT's Media lab argues that societal advances, previously the domain of a small group of individuals, will now become the product of millions of people due to changes in education and technology. He also offers advice to would be start-ups and entrepreneurs, including an argument against instrumentalism: 'The successful will look for fundamental disruptive change.'" There sure do seem to be a lot of creative people doing projects on the web today. What do you folks think of this?

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  1. A lot of creative people by gkuz · · Score: 5, Insightful
    There sure do seem to be a lot of creative people doing projects on the web today. What do you folks think of this?

    Seems to me they're far outnumbered by the un-creative people.

    Concepts like "good design" and "good programming" are skills that take training, practice and work. Woodworking tools are cheap, ubiquitous and far more capable than what was available 20, 40 or 60 years ago. Where are all the people building beautiful, elegant and functional furniture?

  2. What a crock by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't buy his argument. Very few people actually create change in the world. The rest just ride their coat-tails. Smart people are internally motivated - they would succeed in any environment - internet or not. Look at most source projects. Only 1 or 2 people do 99% of the work. All the web brings is a lot of slack-jawed wanna-be gawkers and mediocrity.