TED talk:
Johnson's most recent work focusing on how much innovation is social, that is, that it occurs in locations where sharing is possible. More innovation happens in cities than in non-urban settings, he explains. And now that we have the huge community made possible by the web, the web is the new locale for innovation. The web allows an easy and quick sharing of resources, and it allows participants to transcend time and distance. Johnson is incredibly optimistic about the future that the offers, leading to his notion of "microdemocracy," a system in which small groups of individuals, empowered by the web, will be able to take on problems and challenges that larger governmental bodies have not been able to solve.
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