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Wherever they have looked, researchers have found thriving communities. This is so well documented that there is no longer any scholarly need to demonstrate that community ties exist everywhere, although the alarmed public, politicians and pundits need to be constantly reassured and re-educated. But there is a pressing need to understand what kinds of community flourish, what communities do — and do not do — for people, and how communities operate in different social systems.

successful collaborations don't have to happen only on a movie set; they can occur in virtual environments too. But the trick is to pro-actively remove the barriers to collaboration.

And fame is necessary – but not sufficient – for a commercially successful career in the arts.That quality of "necessary but not sufficient" surfaces again and again in discussions of the transformative power of the internet. It's also the source of much of the controversy about just how transformative the internet actually is.