My 2005 TED talk called for an interdisciplinary study of cooperation. https://www.ted.com/talks/howard_rheingold_the_new_power_of_collaboration?language=en

I taught a seminar at Stanford and an online course on intro to #cooperation theory.

I combined the syllabus with links to videos of live lecture-seminar sessions.

Free PDF

rheingold.com/texts/IntroToCooperationStudies.pdf

The new power of collaboration

Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.

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