It is heartening to read these rich posts and see the direction learning and work is headed. The downside is the slowness to let go of industrial age practices combined with resistance to change (the unknown) and risk-taking needed to shift the culture to open knowledge sharing and creativity.

Some examples:
People are Biased against Creative Ideas, Research Studies Find:

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2011/08/people-are-biased-against-creative-ideas-studies-find

and Open Source Scholarship, for starters, reference: http://sco.lt/8Ilqfx

Our past tends to trap us. Our future requires letting go of a lot of sacred cows in order to benefit the whole. Passion and creativity, when encouraged, can take us a long way toward helping this happen. ~ D