Us Now is a fascinating new documentary about the power of mass collaboration. Whether you’re hacking on the Linux kernel or just tweeting your heart out about what you ate for lunch, this is a film that pretty poignantly explains just how lowering the barriers to self-expression and collaboration can make a huge impact. From our perspective, it’s a fine primer on why we’re passionate about our mission.
Us Now from Banyak Films on Vimeo.
With interviews with some of the leading minds on the power of the new Internet — such as Don Tapscott, Clay Shirky and Charles Leadbeater — it focuses quite a bit on the potential for the “unbundling and reconstituting what is a government” through the collaborative web.
But the prime examples are tools just like AboutUs: the application of collaborative models to every aspect of our lives, even the mundane.
Sites such as Mumsnet and CouchSurfing hammer home the film’s points about being open and showing trust, as well as the “possibility of using these tools to do massive things,” like our goal of adding an editable accompaniment to all the websites that matter to you.
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