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Welcome to the new future of involvement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForming groups is easier than it has ever been. Unpaid volunteers can now build an encyclopaedia together in their spare time. Mistreated customers can join forces to seek justice against airlines and high street banks. Remarkably, one man with a laptop can raise an army to help recover a stolen phone. The barriers to coordinating and mobilising people have been significantly lowered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe effects of this new era of effortless collaboration can be profoundly positive. For instance, young people defy oppressive governments with innovative guerrilla protests, such as mass ice-cream eating. 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