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Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional

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http://www.ted.com In this deceptively casual talk, Charles Leadbeater weaves a tight argument that innovation isn't just for professionals anymore. Passionate amateurs, using new tools, are creating products and paradigms that companies can't. He describes the rising role of serious amateurs ("Pro-Ams," as he calls them) through the story of the mountain bike.

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  • it's just accent. pat-ents is not more correct than pay tent, anymore than tomah-to is more correct than tom-ayto.

  • This has already transformed information broadcasting. Anyone can be a broadcaster or news source with very little cost.

    I have noticed this is beginning to effect manufacturing as well. I have worked in web development for many years and I have noticed more and more of my small business clients getting involved in things like manufacturing in plastic, importing and exporting, and expanding overseas. Things that previously were only within reach of big corporations.

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  • who the hell dislikes these videos?

  • @maaarty787 Wro-Ong!

  • I think think this idea makes an interesting point for network marketing organisations

  • @tessler6868 "what's happening NOW though, is tinkers & inventors (and universities, btw) are encouraged to develop something for nickle & dime "X-prizes" -- their ideas 'bought' by corporations to market (or kill, if competition to existing products) = corporate r&d on the cheap."

    Yup

  • makerbot makes this whole producer consumer thing a moot point .. maybe =)

  • Funniest thing about open source? Ppl will rather pay for free(quality) stuff over some corporations overpriced version, Otherwise known as Donations!! lol drives any sane economist mad

  • Funniest thing about open source? Ppl will pay for free stuff!! Otherwise known as Donations!! lol drives any sane economist mad

  • Just like most creative ideas, the mountain bike was being developed in Crested Butte, Colorado simultaneously with its creation in northern CA. I bought the third mountain bike sold in Colorado Springs at John Crandall's Old Town Bike Shop: a Mt. Fuji!

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