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You can stop one of us. You used to be able to sep­a­rate and iso­late. That’s just not pos­si­ble any­more. You might slow us down, you might stop stop a few, but that’s it.

You CANNOT stop all of us.

We are the cre­ative class. We are lead­ers on the brink.

We are in the mid­dle of the great­est shift of the way the world works since the Indus­trial Rev­o­lu­tion. Fac­to­ries gave us leisure time, gave us a chance to explore knowl­edge and the abil­ity to search for any­thing we wanted to learn.

We’re beyond that now. We have the entire wealth of the world’s knowl­edge at our fin­ger­tips, thanks to the inter­net, but that was only the begin­ning. We are now all part of a net­worked series of inde­pen­dent nodes capa­ble to con­nect­ing to any­one we want. We are a hive mind that doesn’t suf­fer from group think.

We are now all col­lab­o­ra­tors. If knowl­edge is power, your curios­ity and pas­sion are your only lim­its now. No longer can we be con­fused with pro­pa­ganda or con­trolled by a sin­gle source.

Wel­come to the Col­lab­o­ra­tion Rev­o­lu­tion*.

*Props to Chad Swaney for help with this term.

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