WORLD 2.0

How did the internet change the world?

"While hierarchies are not vanishing, profound changes in the nature of technology, demographics, and the global economy are giving rise to powerful new models of production based on community, collaboration, and self-organization rather than on hierarchy and control.
Millions of media buffs now use blogs, wikis, chatrooms, and personal broadcasting to add their voices to a vociferous stream of dialogue and debate called the “blogsphere.” Employees drive performance by collaborating with peers across organizational boundaries, creating what we call a “wiki workplace.” Customers become “prosumers” by cocreating goods and services rather than by simply consuming the end product."
quoted from WIKINOMICS, How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything



Traditionally, we perceive the boundaries of cities via the physical land mass and the use of the passport as a visual proof of passing boundaries. But now, with the globalization and integration of organizations and interests groups and the internet, the perception is changed and there is a blurring of this linear boundary. The boundaries are more of a 3-dimensional network web of connections.