Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge.
Luis von AhnI worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."
Luis von AhnPeople are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!
Luis von Ahn