Idea Spill Over

While reading Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson, I came across an interesting statement: "This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd." (Johnson 58) This statement is so fascinating because of how true it is. This sentence represents a liquid network. A liquid network is a network of good ideas produced by an environment that stands between stagnancy and chaos. When a good idea forms in someone's mind , the idea spills over and creates the illusion  the crowd has wisdom. However, it is actually the one person who came up with the idea that has wisdom. Due to the liquid network environment the idea spills over and the idea spreads to the people in the crowd. Do you agree with this statement? Do you think a liquid environment does not work in some cases? Are there any flaws of a liquid network?