Finish watching the Ippolito video and discuss at least 2 concepts or issues raised in his lecture that intrigued you and why. How do they effect you directly? Have these issues been resolved since the time of the lecture (2004)?

I thought the Pool project was a fascinating project that used collaborative methods and a democratic merit based system of refinement “idea to feedback” to achieve better results than other more hierarchical systems that are present in the current system of idea creation and implementation. I think that the idea of open source software also attacks the current system of top down idea creation. Currently I have experienced the creation of ideas or projects in a method that always has to be checked and supported by someone in a greater position of power. This kind of system leads to many negative types of thinking in the world of idea creation. People with ideas fear that the power structure wont help them implement their idea, that they must first procure a position of power to implement their ideas, that the fundamental implementation and processing of their concepts will be seen as the work of someone else, etc. and all of these notions lead to the individual being less enthusiastic, less interested, and less invested actually manifesting their concept. Instead Ippolito’s concept of the idea being checked by multiple people all who retain no greater or lesser position of power within the decision making structure creates a culture and a process that evokes more passion, fairness and enthusiasm in the creator. I do not think that these issues have had even close to enough time to actually work themselves out. I think that we as internet operators have moved closer towards the open scoured/ shared knowledge that Ippolito advocates for but that most of the hierarchical structures that exist in the idea creation process still dominate. The process for that fundamentally changing is how change always comes more people engaging in the new system and with that the way that the collective operates or sees the system changes. This has many years to really come in to full bloom but I think that there is more open source, more communal, and more democratic systems of thinking and implementing ideas popping up everyday and that we are moving into an age where the collective mind is seen as more important than the single mind, something Ippolito would be happy about.