Humans hold part of the key, human organization another, quality/design of tools around human organization do the rest.
Modern tools are made to "keep user on our platform", witch is a very BAD thing for collaboration, modern tools tend to be all walled gardens, as a result collaboration with the world is VERY BAD and so on.
Let's imaging an international payment system NOT designed around brokers with a gazillion of proprietary platforms but a COMMON API, let's say similar to OpenBank, where ANYONE, not only financial institutions participate. Than payments would be far simpler for anyone, so they do their part to help collaboration for some activities. Let's say we cooperate with plain text files, so we do not have formatting issues, version issues etc common on crappy WYSIWYG platform. Another part of collaboration became easier and so on. YES, this tools are part of the game because they are part of the workflow, it's not just specific sharing tools. Physical environment is part of the game as well: if we are in comfortable places with comfy tools we collaborate better.
There is no holistic approach takeable by single companies, simply the platform model is nice for the platform owner business but harmful for the society and the more we advance the more we cut small part of it to allow collaboration. It's about time to admit that and start change course a bit more seriously...
Modern tools are made to "keep user on our platform", witch is a very BAD thing for collaboration, modern tools tend to be all walled gardens, as a result collaboration with the world is VERY BAD and so on.
Let's imaging an international payment system NOT designed around brokers with a gazillion of proprietary platforms but a COMMON API, let's say similar to OpenBank, where ANYONE, not only financial institutions participate. Than payments would be far simpler for anyone, so they do their part to help collaboration for some activities. Let's say we cooperate with plain text files, so we do not have formatting issues, version issues etc common on crappy WYSIWYG platform. Another part of collaboration became easier and so on. YES, this tools are part of the game because they are part of the workflow, it's not just specific sharing tools. Physical environment is part of the game as well: if we are in comfortable places with comfy tools we collaborate better.
There is no holistic approach takeable by single companies, simply the platform model is nice for the platform owner business but harmful for the society and the more we advance the more we cut small part of it to allow collaboration. It's about time to admit that and start change course a bit more seriously...