Every year the internet becomes more interwoven with collective creative processes. This is apparent not only on the larger scale of knowledge synthesis, in such sites like Wikipedia, but in the creative process of smaller collaborative arts as well. There are different levels of collaboration that vary in level of automation. In sites like Wikipedia, the system of rules in place on the site engineers a more or less effective collaboration of self motivated individuals who are very loosely interested in each others contributions. The smaller the scale, and the more contributers are willing to support the ideals of the collective intelligence, the more incredible result.
I recently read that one of the leading rock bands in the world, The Killers, was assembled using an open Craigslist.com ad. This is only one example of a wider trend of 'finding perfect matches' using the internet. More individuals are not willing to settle for the resources that are immediately available in their world, but use the internet to maintain contact with better human resources and create things that would not otherwise be possible. This is also evident in the dating site trend that now allows people to shop for compatibility before actually meeting the other human being. The downside can be a high probability of distortion of reality, but the upside is a much wider pool of possibility.
I now use the internet to kick recordings and art back and forth across great distances between musicians and artists, which can create amazing collaboration with very little effort or necessity of location.
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