Taking down all the Berlin Walls

It takes the collective intelligence of the multitudes to take down all the Berlin Walls...   workplace communities, social networks, knowledge networks, communities of practice, virtual worlds, community currencies, smart mobs...         The art on the left is of Michelle Paradise.

"The fax machine brought down the Berlin Wall. The World-Wide Web will help us bring down all those walls and ceilings that keep us insulated from our individual and collective genius, locked up in 'command-and-control' thinking and structures." Bill Veltrop

The Web is helping with that but meeting the "perfect storm" of our multiple global crises and coming out on the other end victoriously, is calling for more than a technological innovation. There are also "Berlin Walls" that stop the flow co-creation in our old habits of thinking and social systems ill-adapted to the era of distributed cognition, mobile networks, and disruptive innovation.