Wikinomics

It’s interesting to me that wikis are being touted as the the next big thing by a Canadian I really respect and have know for many years — Don Tapscott. If Don talks about it, and writes about it, it must be true. I used the following example about wikis when I talked to a group of parliamentary researchers and librarians earlier this year at IFLA in Seoul. Business did not embrace personal computers in the 80s because they had huge machines that worked just fine. Today we could not live without PCs. Business did not embrace the net or the web in the 90s because they were only populated by
*&(#$? (junk), right? Today the web and the net are an infrastructure we could not live without. I said to the group that wikis were like that and we would soon not know what we did before they came around. So I’m thrilled to see that I was right, because as I say, if Don says it’s true, it is! Can’t wait for his new book!