Might it be possible for people to collaborate without knowing it? Like having different people at different nodes (plateaus?) in the infrastructure that remain invisible yet are indispensible to the functioning of the infrastructure and are necessary for someone else to do their job? I'm reminded here of Mary Gray's concept of 'Ghost Work', all those people employed by Amazon's Mechanical Turk et al. who tweak AI algorithms and do menial, behind-the-scenes labor to make it seem like AI functions seamlessly and smoothly.
