Thomas Malone is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and founding director of its Center for Collective Intelligence. He is also a founding codirector of MIT’s Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century initiative and author of The Future of Work.
The large, hierarchical corporations that dominated business in the 20th century will not completely disappear, but they will become less important. In their place will be new, more flexible ways of organizing large-scale work that provide great freedom and take advantage of people’s energy and creativity. All of them will depend on the Internet.
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