Ayn Rand on Donahue:
You might be interested to see the ways in which the ideas of Ayn Rand have influenced the development of wikipedia. This article from the London Review of Books offers an interesting argument about the way in which wikipedia can be said to be working.
Excerpt:
When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome. With Wikipedia, the opposite is true. The fact that there is no final version means that anyone can change anything, but it also means that every given change can be attributed to a particular individual.
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