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Howard Rheingold
June 10, 2011 4:34 PM
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Forbes (blog)The Key to BofA's Success: More Women At The TopForbes (blog)This conclusion is supported by the work of professors Anita Woolley and Thomas Malone, whose recent survey (published in the Harvard Business Review) demonstrates that...
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Howard Rheingold
June 10, 2011 10:40 AM
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Decisions 2.0: The Power of Collective Intelligence – The Magazine - MIT Sloan Management Review http://ow.ly/5eID1...
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Howard Rheingold
June 8, 2011 4:37 PM
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The answer lies in a new idea, borrowed from economics, known as collective intelligence: the notion that what determines the inventiveness and rate of cultural change of a population is the amount of interaction between individuals. Even as it explains very old patterns in prehistory, this idea holds out hope that the human race will prosper mightily in the years ahead—because ideas are having sex with each other as never before.
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June 8, 2011 4:34 PM
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Swarm intelligence (SI) is the collective behaviour of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence. The expression was introduced by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989, in the context of cellular robotic systems.[1]
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Howard Rheingold
June 8, 2011 4:33 PM
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So, it's this "people power" through distributed thinking that is bringing new success to the critically important and painfully difficult computational problem of protein folding. Similar results are also being experienced by GalaxyZoo and their expanding platform of Zooninverse, where nearly 312,000 at home users help identify interesting astronomical structures or phenomena that require subjective classification decisions.
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Howard Rheingold
June 8, 2011 4:29 PM
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Welcome to CrowdResearch.org, a place for researchers studying crowdsourcing, human computation, and collective intelligence. The goal of this site is to bring together people from different disciplines and perspectives, sharing ideas, techniques, and results.
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June 8, 2011 4:28 PM
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All Our Ideas is a platform that enables groups to collect and prioritize ideas in a transparent, democratic, and bottom-up way. It’s a suggestion box for the digital age.
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June 10, 2011 10:40 AM
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Pandemics. Global warming. Food shortages. No more fossil fuels. What are humans to do? The same thing the species has done before: evolve to meet the challenge. But this time we don’t have to rely on natural evolution to make us smart enough to survive. We can do it ourselves, right now, by harnessing technology and pharmacology to boost our intelligence. Is Google actually making us smarter?
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June 8, 2011 5:14 PM
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The driving force behind the Web 2.0 revolution is a spirit of intellectual philanthropy and collective intelligence that is made possible by new technologies for communication, collaboration and information management. One of the best examples of collective intelligence in action are the wide range of social bookmarking applications that have been embraced in recent years.
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June 8, 2011 4:35 PM
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But whereas crowdsourcing generally refers to aggregating the responses of individuals across a network, collaborative democracy aspires to the kind of intentional peer production and shared group effort of Wikipedia
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June 8, 2011 4:34 PM
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The Doug Engelbart Institute’s Bootstrapping Innovation system provides a structure for empowering people to solve complex problems together.
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June 8, 2011 4:31 PM
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élan proposes providing a technical and social platform for collaborative sensing and meaning-making to augment the collective intelligence, wisdom, and capabilities of groups and movements on the leading edge of social evolution.
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June 8, 2011 4:28 PM
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Do groups have genetic structures? If so, can they be modified?
Those are two central questions for Thomas Malone, a professor of management and an expert in organizational structure and group intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management.
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June 8, 2011 4:27 PM
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instead of having a purely individual function, reasoning has a social and, more specifically, argumentative function. The function of reasoning would be to find and evaluate reasons in dialogic contexts—more plainly, to argue with others. Here’s a very quick summary of the evolutionary rationale behind this theory.
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