Speaking of people who get it, check out John Seely Brown’s presentation on The Common Sense Model [pdf] delivered at the Infocomm Technology Roadmap symposium in Singapore.

Brown gives us a simple, powerful model– in cartoons!– of why the things I talk about here (social software, educational technology, the Creative Commons) are important: the ‘virtuous circle’ of the formation of intellectual and social capital, from passive to active entertainment, extended forms of literacy, the rise of the creative class, creating->tinkering->learning->sharing->creating meaning.

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