

Chief Digital Officer at Te Papa Museum of New Zealand. Views my own.
…ite web make projects like Svegliamuseo and Alexandra Korey’s Ufizzi app and e-book inevitable, and even the largest, most brilliant institutions can not match the wit and energy of their followers, particularly when those followers are part of a network that connects more than a third of humanity. We should expect to see countless thousands of projects like these as the Internet continues to grow…
…lks into more than 70 languages, thereby tripling our viewership in non-English-speaking countries. By giving away our TEDx brand, we suddenly have a thousand-plus live experiments in the art of spreading ideas. And these organizers, they’re seeing each other, they’re learning from each other. We are learning from them. We’re getting great talks back from them. The wheel is turning.
This is not just a matter of the glass being half empty or half full. The disconnect here is that the glass—the Internet and the dark matter of open, social, read/write culture—is so much bigger than we are accustomed to seeing and thinking about. The glass is huge, and it keeps getting bigger, every day.