This Ted talk by Don Tapscott on the fundamental attributes of Openness is illuminating:
Don waxes highly hopeful about an Open Future. But there are stark counter-examples right now. Spain,much of Southern Europe and the MidEast have 40% or much higher youth unemployment. The crux of the problem is also covered in the lecture. Note how much Tapscott’s GoldCorp neighbour paid for $3Billion worth of information. Its just about the same total compensation Bill Gates paid for DOS from Seattle Computing way back when. The fundamental problem, call it business deviance, is contrariness regarding Open Tenet 3: Sharing, – not all share even close to fairly or equitably.