Technologies of Cooperation

Enable networks of groups to form and create new economic, social and political structure. Includes elements of mobile computing, social accounting and reputation tools, knowledge collectives and peer-to-peer production.

Real World Application

Technologies of cooperation leverage the open economy
An emerging set of social technologies—from mobile computing and reputation systems to open, collective knowledge repositories and peer-to-peer production—is greatly expanding human capacity to cooperate. These technologies will drive experimentation with new forms of economic production, social organization, and civic governance. Specifically, cooperative technologies facilitate group formation, network building, transparency, aggregating distributed resources, and leveraging self-interest to create broader social value.

Smart mobbing becomes a primary social-networking skill
Communities and families will become differentiated by their ability to catalyze collective action and mobilize resources for specific and targeted priorities. Smart mobs, self-organizing swarms, and other hybrid ad hoc groups will become familiar social forms that guide civic action and change in communities.