2021: Mass Collaboration and the Really New Economy
Thomas Gruber (2001). 2021: Mass Collaboration and the Really New Economy. In TNTY Futures, Volume 1, Issue 6
Speculation about political and economic changes due to Internet-based information transparency, written in 2001. TNTY Futures was the newsletter of The Next Twenty Years Series. They published articles that speculate about the future, twenty years out. Well, folks, crack open the time capsule!
Original Abstract: In twenty years, the Internet will force cataclysmic changes in business and politics, due to transparency about the quality of goods and services drawn from collective experience.
Context: TNTY Futures is the newsletter of The Next Twenty Years Series. The do seminars and run articles that speculate about the future, twenty years out.