Social Revolution: Crowdsourcing For Change
Editor's note : Guest commentator Michael Tchong is the founder of Social Revolution. How often have you thought our country needs to change? That something is fundamentally and systemically wrong that needs fixing? And that things could be fixed if we leveraged social media to find the best ideas to agree on? In the world of technology, we’re used to upheaval. In fact, we rely on it to drive innovation and improvements. So why can’t we use technology to solve some of the underlying problems we all agree need to change? Technology innovations have often been able to fill gaps - even leapfrog them in many cases - between our “old world" habits and the demands of the "new world.” Apple is a classic example of what I’m talking about. We used to live in a world where music lived on compact discs. Then came MP3 files, which made music infinitely more accessible - too accessible some might say. Michael Tchong But it took Apple to make buying music and transferring it to a po...