This morning I was blown away. In fact, I was in tears of joy.
I picked up from a tweet, from Don Tapscott author of MacroWikinomics, a link to a YouTube video.
I curiously followed it.
As a knowledge management practitioner since 1995, and particularly since the era of Web 2.0, I have been very interested in examples of mass collaboration that have emerged on the web. Popular examples are, of course, Wikipedia, Encyclopaedia of Life, Genome project etc.
Mass collaborations, in such volumes, and such degrees of diversity, all coming together, can often distil truth, or get very close indeed.
They can break the boundaries of human knowledge to something much bigger, totally disruptive and uncontrollable, like a sort of knowledge tsunami.
Well today I saw for the first time a video from a TED talk from Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong. Each person sang alone to a score and conductor from around the world, and the individual video uploads were edited into one production.
The result is simply wonderful, and truly so much greater than the sum of the parts! A magnificent global mass collaboration.
Take a look at this 14 minute video of the talk and final music video’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NENlXsW4pM
What truth does this distil for you?
Ron Young
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