10 month ago
joshua : The Bottom is Not Enough - on peer production
Linkorama : Bottom up demands time - The bottom-up hive mind will always take us much further than even seems possible. It keeps surprising us in this regard. Given enough time, dumb things can be smarter than we think. At that same time, the bottom-up hive mind will never take us to our end
deusx : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "I think the top-down function of editors -- to select, prune, guide, solicit, shape, and guide the results from the crowd -- is essential to excellence."
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29 month ago
deusx : mayfly swarm - Google Image Search - Includes weather radar images of Michigan, near where I grew up in Algonac.
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36 month ago
Linkorama : Cellphones as Change Agents - "A bunch of people on Flight 93 were scared out of their minds," said Stewart Brand at a recent FORTUNE dinner in San Francisco. "so they formed a spontaneous network and figured out what was going on using their cellphones. Then they did something about
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38 month ago
Linkorama : The Great Wiki Raid of '05 - Futurists from around the world conduct a 24 hour "knowledge assault" on Wikipedia.org for the purpose of demonstrating how knowledge is created in a digital world.
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