Collaborating

Writers may collaborate; musicians may collaborate; teachers and learners may collaborate on assignments, projects, and all manner of artifacts of knowledge. Collaboration is nothing new – it is as old as civilization and perhaps older, as the hunt was often a collaborative effort to bring food to the tribe. But today’s technological capabilities allow and foster collaboration at a pace and scope that makes it almost a new category of human activity. Cross-domain collaboration may point the way toward solutions to intractable problems that individuals or specialized groups could not solve. The concepts of [|consilience] and [|intersubjectivity] are given instrumentality via the engines of collaboration.