Booking it on the web?
In a revealing article in the London Times, “Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”, Charles Leadbetter advertises his book, “We-Think” which seems to be a popular(ized) effort to think out the implications of distributed intellience. The “bare-bones” (his words) portrait in the Times does not reveal anything new, but what is striking that he practices what he preaches.
As I was researching and writing We-Think, it became evident that I could not write a book about collaborative creativity in a traditional way — which is why, with the support of my publishers at Profile, I am releasing the book in draft form before its physical publication, which is planned for summer 2007. Most of the first draft was made available online this week, with the final three or four chapters following over the next few weeks. I hope that by opening up the book to readers’ comments before it hits the bookshops, we can make it a better book. But the real point is to provoke a conversation about the emerging opportunities for us to organise ourselves in more collaborative, creative ways.
If anyone drops in, let me know. I will get there, eventually…
