Comments on: Is there a Paradox of Wikinomics? http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/06/is-there-a-paradox-of-wikinomics/ Exploring How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:21:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Wikinomics – The Collaboration Paradox: Why E2.0 Efforts Fail http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/06/is-there-a-paradox-of-wikinomics/comment-page-1/#comment-359380 Wikinomics – The Collaboration Paradox: Why E2.0 Efforts Fail Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:42:54 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=2290#comment-359380 [...] A little over a year ago, one of my nGenera colleagues, Denis Hancock, wrote about what I’ll refer to as the potential “economic impact” paradox of mass collaboration in the post “Is there a paradox of Wikinomics?” [...] [...] A little over a year ago, one of my nGenera colleagues, Denis Hancock, wrote about what I’ll refer to as the potential “economic impact” paradox of mass collaboration in the post “Is there a paradox of Wikinomics?” [...]

]]> By: Naumi Haque http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2009/01/06/is-there-a-paradox-of-wikinomics/comment-page-1/#comment-236493 Naumi Haque Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:42:34 +0000 http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/?p=2290#comment-236493 Great post Denis. I'm wondering if there's a way to ratchet back the demand for work? I guess I’m thinking about collaborative tools in the context of the electronic dishwasher. When tools like the dishwasher and the microwave came out, they promised to reduce the amount of household work and create more leisure time. In fact, all they did was free up time to do more work (i.e. double income households). It sure would be nice if we could finally use these collaborative tool and models (and the dishwasher) to actually improve our quality of living instead of freeing up more time for more work. That being said, now that the economic growth model is pretty much dependent on a 40-hour work weeks and double income families, is there a way to scale back? Maybe we can work this into the economic “reboot” that Don talks about. The other point I’d make is that there is, in fact, another paradox related to collaboration and work – collaboration creates efficiencies, but is also a time-sink – the more you open yourself to collaboration, the more you improve the efficiency of the system, but you also create collaboration overhead for individuals. Great post Denis. I’m wondering if there’s a way to ratchet back the demand for work? I guess I’m thinking about collaborative tools in the context of the electronic dishwasher. When tools like the dishwasher and the microwave came out, they promised to reduce the amount of household work and create more leisure time. In fact, all they did was free up time to do more work (i.e. double income households). It sure would be nice if we could finally use these collaborative tool and models (and the dishwasher) to actually improve our quality of living instead of freeing up more time for more work. That being said, now that the economic growth model is pretty much dependent on a 40-hour work weeks and double income families, is there a way to scale back? Maybe we can work this into the economic “reboot” that Don talks about.

The other point I’d make is that there is, in fact, another paradox related to collaboration and work – collaboration creates efficiencies, but is also a time-sink – the more you open yourself to collaboration, the more you improve the efficiency of the system, but you also create collaboration overhead for individuals.

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