Kevin Kelly responds to Nick Carr

Sure: To operate at a different hierarchical level, in the way that a bunch of cells (one level of organization) exhibit new behaviors as a group of cells (a "higher" or transcendent level of organization) when they collaborate as a organism. I can recommend Stephen Johnson's book on Emergence, or the work at the Santa Fe Institute if you want to hear more about the science behind this.

Now that we are in agreement, we can move on to more interesting questions, such as what kind of emergent, higher level behavior do we seen in "large groups on the internet"? Do these emergent levels of behavior produce anything new? Anything useful? Or in other words, assuming groups make things individual can't, what really cool and significant things have large hives of humans on the internet made, that could not be made otherwise? That's the real question, right?