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TEDGlobal 2005

July 2005

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The new open-source economics

Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.

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Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

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Yochai Benkler has been called "the leading intellectual of the information age." He proposes that volunteer-based projects such as Wikipedia and Linux are the next stage of human organization and economic production.