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Ants' Hive Mind

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The insects make better decisions collectively than when on their own...
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The Internet Messiah Has Arrived | The Electro Sapien

The Internet Messiah Has Arrived | The Electro Sapien | Science News | Scoop.it

The electro-type, the Electro Sapien, will expand conscious access to brain realism, merge — through miraculous data crunching — our insipid linear perception of reality with actual multidimensional reality. He will abstract linear thinking, see and analyse in greater detail the sapient mass of present time. He will feed on vision and memory connectivity stored in all constructs of matter, and harness integration of individual electric signatures with the internet’s electric signature. He won’t fear death, nor personal identity dissolution and insignificance.

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6 surprising things social media can predict

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The FBI wants to mine social media for data it hopes can predict future terrorist attacks. But that's not the only way to use Facebook and Twitter as crystal balls

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Managing Collective Intelligence-If you think knowledge is power, you aren’t living in the real world.

Managing Collective Intelligence-If you think knowledge is power, you aren’t living in the real world. | Science News | Scoop.it

[...] Chapter 9A live experiment in collective intelligence!


If you think knowledge is power, you aren’t living in the real world. Knowledgechanges so fast that if you try to hold onto it, you end up with nothing. To get power,it is much more effective to share knowledge and thus build the basis for a reputation.If people think you have key strategic knowledge, you will have power within theorganization.
Richard McDermott, President of McDermott Consulting (From "Lagestion du savoir", proceedings of the November 2003 colloquium organized byCEFRIO:http://www.cefrio.qc.ca/pdf/ActesGestionDuSavoir.pdf )

 

This quote describes a common-sense reality that unfortunately not everyone understands. But wecan implement this idea here and now, creating the basis for a collective reputation! Chapter 9 of thisbook will thus be open to everyone and co-authored. Here, the book becomes interactive, written byreaders and by the author. [...]


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Making collective wisdom wiser: Researcher develops methods to automatically optimize 'crowd-sourcing'

Making collective wisdom wiser: Researcher develops methods to automatically optimize 'crowd-sourcing' | Science News | Scoop.it
Many popular sites, such as Wikipedia and Tripadvisor, rely on public participation to gather information — a process known as crowd data sourcing.
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Freedom to Riot: On the Evolution of Collective Violence

From London to the Middle East riots have shaken political stability. Are the answers to be found in human nature?

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Gamers, their networks and collective intelligence

Gamers, their networks and collective intelligence | Science News | Scoop.it

The next generation is growing up in a collaborative world and are instinctual in their use of collective intelligence and networks. We have become ‘informational hunters and gatherers” (Jenkins, 2006, location 2480) and while elder generations may still be isolated in old media, the younger generations, and especially gamers, are learning to work together in a way we have never done before. Games bring people together and allow for collaboration in problem solving, a skill that many of us could benefit in practicing.

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Collective Intelligence: Ants colony solving TSP – CodeProject

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Here are some examples of collective intelligence which can be observed in the nature


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Going Public: The Connective, Collective Power of The Social Web (w/video)

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Jarvis is a self-described optimist, but he isn’t blind. Radically new technologies, he recognizes, raise important legal and ethical issues that need to be addressed – the protection of privacy, for example. But we should be most skeptical, he urges, of our own tendency to fear the new rather than seizing it creatively to amplify the best in ourselves.

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Bee-brained

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You make decisions. How good you are at doing so is irrelevant, what matters is that you make them. You make them in the same way as a bee. But how is that?

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Collective Intelligence: Humanity’s Mass Mind

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Science fiction stories often talk about the “Collective” – or “intelligence”, if you will – where the mass of mankind’s knowledge is accessible through a telepathic thought.
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Collective Learning

How symbolic language drives collective learning and how this is one of the truly differentiating aspects of human beings relative to the rest of the animal ...
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The Web is Not a Gadget | The Creativity Post

The Web is Not a Gadget | The Creativity Post | Science News | Scoop.it
The Web Hasn't been designed to DO anything. And so it DOESN'T do anything, much less anything SMART, CREATIVE, OR SUGGESTING AWARENESS.

 

The problem with the Web is simply this: The Web is not really designed for anything. The structure of the Web is characterized by its interconnectivity, and that depends on how individual sites choose to connect to one another. The Web’s large-scale interconnectivity isn’t designed by engineers, and it is also not a consequence of selection mechanisms capable of implicitly leading to anything one would call “design.” Selectiondoes happen, but at the level of the individual sites within the Web, not at the level of the entire Web.

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