The rise of the amateur professional

On March 19, 2009, in Good Advice, by Steffen Itterheim

In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn’t just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can’t. Link to this Talk.

Why would you want to view this 20 minute talk? If you want to be re-inforced that open source, communities and “consumers as producers” will be a big part of our future and in some areas already is the main competitor to large, if not monopolist, corporations.

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