How does bottom-up innovation happens ? How can an organised action emerge from a complex network of individuals ? In this talk, Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler (@ybenkler) describe how the Internet became a networked platform for collective action against SOPA and PIPA.
Benkler applies a fascinating term — the “attention backbone” — to describe how influential nodes in a network direct traffic and awareness to research or data.
Fascinating to see the process evolve in a life-like manner and see the emergence of an organized collective action from a group of loose individuals and organisation that can compete with traditional organizations.