Excellent point. It reminded me of Clay Shirky's TED talk, on institutions vs. collaboration: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/clay_shirky_on_institutions_ver

Excellent point. It reminded me of Clay Shirky's TED talk, on institutions vs. collaboration: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/clay_shirky_on_institution... I'd add another problem with this state where more ideas, movements, tribes, etc. find critical mass via better and better communication technologies, is the side-effect of these groups forming echo chambers of ideas leading to more divergent groups with less in common, thus creating harder to resolve differences.