Wikinomics

Mr. Clean Magic Eraser

yet2.com and InnoCentive

he has made “proudly found elsewhere” a mantra for the company.

The reality is that there are just too many choices. Businesses wishing to harness open source must first wade through a vast heap of applications. Which ones are quality? Which ones are not? If you can sort that out, congratulations, you’ve gotten past step one. Now, by some stroke of luck or magic, you’ll need to make all of the disparate applications work in concert.

The world is teeming with possibilities for education, work, and entrepreneurship—one just needs the skills, motivation, the capacity for lifelong learning, and a basic income level to get connected.