Spark: Interview with "Future Perfect" author

• Listen here:  cbc.ca
• Free market forces know the problem to solve and are very efficient, for the short term, but don't do well with planning long-term projects (e.g. widening a bridge in anticipation of increased traffic volumes).  This is what governments are good for.  Can decentralized peer networks plan and execute long-term projects?   
• Media likes to put one person on the cover of Time, etc. when actually the work of thousands may have contributed to X project.  This gives an inaccurate view of how projects are successful.  Projects are not successful based solely on the heroics of one person and even when a project was led by one individual, for multiple successive projects, heroics often cannot be repeated.
• Although I have not read the book, it seems that what is described is also evidenced by the success of open source software that powers the innovation happening on the Internet.  That is, source code written by one person can be freely adapted or enhanced by another developer, without patents and royalties to contend with.  This reflects the saying "[building] on the shoulders of giants".