Jeff Howe's Crowdsourcing

Jeff Howe had an article in The Independent this week promoting his new book Crowdsourcing.

If you are interested in how technology is changing how we work and how we cooperate with each other then the article is certainly worth a read.

Howe quotes Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave (1980) and its prediction of how we will be working and living in the not so distant future. I read Future Shock and The Third Wave when they were published in Britain and was immediately convinced. Toffler shaped my political thinking while I was studying A level politics led me to the conclusion that Britain needed political institutions that would allow this third wave to flourish. At university I bored my fellow liberals with talk of the 'post-industrial society' and then nothing happened. And then it did. The web arrived and changed everything.