But what I'm here to talk to you about today is how that same interdependence is actually an extremely powerful social infrastructure that we can actually harness to help heal some of our deepest civic issues, if we apply open-source collaboration.

So, this idea that you have a new, sort of turbo-charged DIY community that believes in open-source, in collaboration, collaborates online, collaborates in different spaces.

But just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection in ways that people didn't understand.

For example, in brotherhoods, fraternal organizations, sororities, locutions like "the family of man, " you try to get people who are not related to use the relationship type that would ordinarily be appropriate to close kin.

And it was an amazing collaboration to work with this great artist whom I admire.

Enhancing cooperation: Cooperative learning in the school instead of competitive learning, Unconditional cooperation within corporations -- there can be some competition between corporations, but not within.

There's a visual revolution that's taking place as more organizations are addressing their wicked problems by collaboratively drawing them out.

So I'm now on a mission to help organizations solve their wicked problems by using collaborative visualization, and on a site that I've produced called drawtoast.com, I've collected a bunch of best practices.

But in 1977, amidst revelations of brainwashing and abuse, Jones moved with several hundred followers to establish the commune of Jonestown in Guyana.

So parents choose specific years to give birth to babies, because they believe the team effort by the right combination of animals can give prosperity to families.

Economists, sociologists, moral philosophers have understood that, and we are actively looking for collaboration.

(Laughter) But they did it through cooperative economics, because they knew that capitalism was never going to finance black liberation.

If you're an entrepreneur, if you have a small business, or you're interested in starting one, then link up with LUCI or another organization like us to help you get started on the cooperative model.

When I look at companies that are moving fast, that are really innovative and that are doing amazing things with agility and speed, it's because they're collaborative.

There has been a lot of competition in the past, and we need to develop a new model of partnership, truly collaborative, where we are looking for complementing, not substituting.