In the presentation below, Rheingold describes the coming world of collaboration as a participatory media and collective action. He also discusses how Wikipedia, an outgrowth of our natural human instinct, works as a group.

The spirit of collaboration, a key issue for the open content movement, reinforces  new concepts such as “smart mobs” , ”networks” and “collectives”.
Smart [...]

Charles Leadbeater presents several cases about “amateur innovation”  -  people who have the tools to collaborate and innovate make their expertise known through great ideas from outside the traditional walls.
Charles Leadbeater’s theories on innovation have compelled some of the world’s largest organizations to rethink their strategies. 

 
His book, We-Think explores how this emerging culture of mass [...]

Professor Lessig rethinks intellectual property rights by judging a balance of forces between commerce and community. His main argument focuses on reviving our creative culture.
 
His presentation in TED and his book present a very interesting combative manifesto enhancing How creativity is being strangled by the law
Larry Lessig is is one of the foremost authorities on [...]