In Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky presents the notion that the advent of social tools have presented a landscape of new ideas and innovations. Shirky claims that the cost of failure is minimized in tools such as Sourceforge. He talks about how collectives are formed from social media groups such as Digg.
Ideas and innovation are disrupting our traditional corporate structure. We consume this in the technology we use. Our smartphones today contain a great bulk of open source software. Microsoft fails to deliver anything that is as popular and ubiquitous as Android or Linux. Hence, our corporate management structure is giving way to the sea of collective contributions.
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I loved Shirky's thoughts on a group of people being able to organize themselves without management overseeing everything. It's going to be a great day when management is an oddity instead of the standard.
I don't think we'll ever see a day when corporate management doesn't exist in software engineering. Some things are better done the cathedral way, and some things are better done the bazaar way.
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