“What’s going to matter is, not information but what people want to do with it. So I don’t think it make sense to really look at technology but it makes a lot of sense to look at what people want to do with technology. And I think that increasingly they want to participate, they want to contribute, they want to use it. They want to share. Find ways of sharing information and ideas with other people and they want to find ways to collaborate. So, I think it’s much more about the emergence of a networked society and its development into these networks of collaboration, that’s really the key thing. Information is just a kind of raw material at that.”

Charles Leadbeater, innovation and creativity specialist and author