Sherry Turkle responds to group

I think it is telling that this conversation about group think versus individual think gets caught in a one or the other dynamic.

For most careful thinking on most topics, it pays to go granular. And it pays to imagine different social actors and processes taking different roles. Wouldn't it be more productive to be thinking about what has to happen, what support is needed, for individual ideas to be best explored on the net . . . and then brought back, perhaps, to individuals for what they do best . . . in other words to imagine this as a new kind of social process that should not be categorized as the work of one or the work of crowds.

This reminds me of how upset so many of my students got when Wikipedia introduced editing in certain areas. Some went into near-mourning. A principle, an article of faith had been compromised. In my view, this attitude is holding us back and keeping us in old ways of thinking (binary) instead of exploring more fluid solutions.