absolutely, it's almost unimaginable to imagine large-scale products (think a MacBook Pro of more dramatically a 747) being autonomously created via mass-collab

absolutely, it's almost unimaginable to imagine large-scale products (think a MacBook Pro of more dramatically a 747) being autonomously created via mass-collaboration. if you read the end of my post I agree whole-heartedly with that limitation. what I am really guessing is that in the 21st century hybrid organizational forms ought to embody different component of hierarchy (think vertical) and meshwork (think vertical) at different points or functions of output along the spectrum from creation to production in order to really adapt to the sea-changes in the economy. what exactly do you mean by 'platform' and why is it inevitable that these entities become large-scale corporations? depending on how you define it wikipedia is a 'platform' and yet it remains a 501(c)3 led by a visionary, jimmy wales, and yet crowd-sourced by the masses. you seem to have a static or monolithic image of what corporation means; a corporation, at least in the Coasian sense, is just a conglomeration of individual actors who decide to band together for awhile (we know all corporations die inevitably)