Quotable Quotes: "The Interaction Economy"

(GW Note: In the business world, more powerful software is being developed to support "the interaction economy." To enable students to survive and thrive in that economy, education reform globally urges more group work, interactivity and problem-solving in teaching and learning.)
"The Interaction Economy". (Quote from IHT article on Scrybe software. September 2007) … A McKinsey study of U.S. economic activity in 2005 said that 40 percent of labor activity, the biggest chunk, came not from making things or from traditional transactions but from what McKinsey called "the interaction economy," the part in which people collaborate, solve problems and design products and such. … One might also call it "the meeting economy.” ...