This document discusses how coworking, crowdfunding, Wikipedia, and social networks are changing behaviors and empowering innovation by connecting people through shared work environments, funding projects via many small contributions, collaboratively building knowledge bases, and facilitating open communication networks. Coworking involves independent work in shared office spaces to meet new people and change traditional work styles, while crowdfunding allows ideas to happen by activating communities to make monetary contributions online with people collectively deciding which projects to support.