Kevin Kelly responds to Nick Carr

A crowd cannot have an idea; only an individual can have an idea. You'll find creativity in the members of a crowd, but not in the crowd itself.

Nick, what do you make of teams, say instead of crowds, having an idea? While there are lead writers on scripts, much of the writing is very collaborative, to the point where if you ask the members of a script team whose idea X or Y was, they won't know. This kind of writing is different from the archetypical lone genius writer, and not everyone is good at it. But team writing has produced some of the best works of culture in our century. In fact the rest of a Hollywood movie (effects, filming, editing) is also done in teams where the origin of some ideas are unclear, so that we have to say the team had the idea. Same in other endeavors. While there are lead architects, or lead programmers, much of the work is done by a team. If a team can have an idea, what's the boundary between a team and a crowd?