The Internet isn’t really a technology. It’s a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it’s a philosophy that has begun to change how we think about creativity itself.

MIT Media Lab director Joichi Ito on innovating by the seat of our pants. Related, the untold story of how MIT Media Lab became a mecca for innovation.

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And it’s a system that is irrevocably altering the nature of political discourse, as the Arab Spring, the Tea Party, and the Occupy movement have demonstrated.  People utilizing social networks to organize around philosophical/political beliefs and then project them to the world. 

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