That blew me away. I can never get enough of these Ted talks. Even the ones with the most awful titles on the most boring subjects tend to be utterly brilliant and captivating.

While I love this talk, it's pretty old. it was posted 6 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100821

It was also posted 8 months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=77118

Sorry. The site has different URLs pointing at the same links and thus it didn't come up when I posted :-/

One possible solution could be a mass-patronage model: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=265196

its not the law, its bureaucratic bullshit for most industries you need permission to do anything. The web is the latest bastion standing where you can be as creative as you want.

Do you contend that this is why there is so much attention given to web startups?