Clay Shirky: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age (for everyone?)

Off to see Clay Shirky talk tonight about his new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Lots of ideas about human potential in the 21st Century and living in a world that is moving to being less about consuming and more about doing.

I’ll be intrigued to find out how far down this road he thinks we are. Does the Foxxcon assembly line worker in Shenzen or the Mcjobber in the suburbs of Sao Paulo get to be part of this creative rebalancing? Or are they just allowed to be the last targets for growth hungry legacy companies of the 20th Century and an easily forgotten part of our own personal supply chains?

Death of CR Report: Intel blog post

Will social media mean that  the CR Report will be a GRI focused exercise and end up  resembling a financial statement?

Just Means blog post on the subject

Some of the best reporters are those working in