”Īs executive director of the historic 92 nd Street Y cultural and community center in New York City, Henry is a passionate believer in the new power distribution that technology allows. “If you are able to harness this new power, you are likely to come out on top,” says Henry Timms, co-author, with Jeremy Heimans, of “ New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World - and How to Make It Work for You. This "old power" was owned by a tiny fraction of humankind, and beyond reach for the vast majority of people.īut the ubiquitous connectivity of our world today is allowing something altogether new to occur, and makes possible an extraordinarily different kind of power: people-centric, participatory-focused and spreading with lightning-fast speed. For most of recorded history, the rules of power were clear: Power was something to be seized and then guarded at any cost.
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