by Venessa Miemis, John Smart & Alvis Brigis
Introduction
humanity – how we do business, how we learn, how we generate value together, how we interact. This transformation is being driven both by new communication technologies and by the emergent behaviors these tools enable. The context for our relationships is shifting and we still don’t know exactly what that means for us as a species. We’re asking ourselves questions like:
What happens when social networks connect us on a global scale?
How do new social and virtual currencies challenge our ideas about what money is and how value can be created and exchanged?
How can we form globally distributed enterprises and collaborative teams?
What do these emerging business models look like?
How do we build knowledge together and become more effective learners?
How are our notions of democracy and governance evolving?
What role do social technologies play in the evolution of human consciousness?
These are all challenging questions, and we don’t know yet have the solutions.(continue…)