Chris Anderson discusses how the internet is driving innovation. The crowd, he says, accelerates innovation. Anderson says that a crowd creates an ecosystem that shines a light on talent and increases the desire of participants to step up their game because they are now in a much brighter spotlight than was ever possible before.
The crowd ecosystem provides a platform whereby people are able to showcase their talents and skills and learn from the best or most interesting moves of other "performers". In the digital age people are more easily connected with each other and learn from one another -- and the ecosystem is much larger than it was in the analog age.
We are also moving away from top-down silos of information in schooling to lateral and interdisciplinary learning. The learning relationship is no longer self-consciously hierarchical, from teacher to student. We are all learners so that teachers become facilitators of student-lead and student-centered learning. Students learn by teaching so that the roles of teachers and students are frequently reversed in order to encourage students to know what they are talking about and develop greater proficiency.
A global digital community, says Anderson, encourages networking, emulation and innovation on a scale that was previously unimaginable.
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