http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/darpa-fang-winner/
"The Pentagon’s blue-sky researchers have awarded $1 million to a team
of designers who they believe have built an innovative drivetrain for a
Marine swimming tank. The first Darpa FANG challenge has a winner.
The three-person team that won convinced Darpa that their design
could outperform Defense Department requirements for the Marines’ future
Amphibious Combat Vehicle — which, as it happens, just got an infusion of research and development cash
in the new Pentagon budget. But Darpa didn’t only want to demonstrate
that it could design a better swimming tank to take Marines from ship to
shore in a combat zone. It wanted to demonstrate that the wisdom of
crowds can boost innovation for major defense hardware."
The Wisdom of Crowds is catching on.
Internet Collective Action is people organizing in a nonhierarchical manner to accomplish a particular goal. The reward is in the doing, and how much or how little anyone participates is completely voluntary, depending on their abilities and commitment to the goal. By this process amazing things can be accomplished. ICA will grow so long as the Internet is free. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/pc.htm is an example of ICA.
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