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“By the time I reached adulthood I was pretty sure I was creative, and I considered this a good thing. I grew up in the 1980s in a milieu in which creativity was encouraged. My parents signed me up for pottery and music lessons and something called Odyssey of the Mind, where kids competed against students from other schools in skits and in quickly
... See moreThe rise of the network allows us to exploit the fact of human labor that long predates the Internet. The ability to divvy up an overwhelming task - such as the writing of an exhaustive encyclopedia - into small enough chunks that completing it becomes not only feasible, but fun.
Jeff Howe • Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd Is Driving the Future of Business
We’ve established that millions of gamers are very willing to invest substantial time & resources into modifying, improving & supporting virtual worlds they care about – even if there’s no monetary return on that investment.
Chris Rempel • Part 2: creating the new frontier – Chris Rempel's Blog
projects like Invisible Seattle and Loot prove that inventive and imaginative r
esults can emerge from collaboration, producing works that defy easy categorization and commercialization.
Consumers don’t need to fully reject franchise offerings, but perhaps they can find creative reprieve and representation within worlds that they can contribute to.