But it can also be for procrastination – the enemy of participation.

The world is changing,* and what we’re realising is, it’s a place of abundance rather than a place of scarcity.  We are invited to move from a world of observing to world of participating and contributing.

Yes, it will mean we’re vulnerable, but as Chris Anderson reminds us, we’re all born Makers – his word for artist and artisan.  As soon as we are able to imagine and play, we make things.  Somewhere between childhood and adulthood, we lose this, but we’re living in a time when imagining and making can be rediscovered.

I used to think you could get lost for days in Ikea, but sites like Pinterest are bigger still – pages and pages of online content displaying what people have made, often without big factories and workshops – evidence that many people are taking the opportunity to move from observing to contributing.

When you value the right things about yourself, and you understand that at your fingertips is everything you require to produce something right now, you have no idea of where it will go.

There is a growing realisation this is a world of abundance, beginning with the infinite resource of Human imagination, and they are beginning to play.  They are realising the truth, we are all born participants.

Time to join in.

(*We have been producing the ways and means for connecting more powerfully with Human creativity – says Chris Anderson: ‘Computers amplify human potential: they not only give people the power to create but can also spread their ideas quickly, creating communities, markets, even movements.’)