Yochai

After watching Yochai's video discussing how social connections will reshape markets I have decided to do a little reseach of my own. The video was really hard to follow. It might have been because I have not been exposed to his theories  before. I searched (online of course) for more information about the person that I just saw on the video. He has a very impressive resume and has theories that challenge technology and society to look deeper than the face value of information sharing. One example that he came across was that these scientists wanted to map pictures that they have seen. They did not have the resources to complete this. So they posted them online and then people volunteered and most importantly contributed information that when reviewed was indistinuishable from the Phd scientists themselves. What does this tell us? I think that it has an important message. Society as a whole can educate one another to a level far above what we have realized. In general, Yochai is right, volunteered information is the next big thing and will shape our future of our culture.