…or dumber. According to James Surowiecki, the jury’s still out on whether or not the Internet will improve us via collective intelligence or seduce us into conformity. Check out his fascinating talk about the wisdom of crowds on TED.
Highlights:
Each blog post, each blog commentary may not, in and of itself, be exactly what we’re looking for, but collectively, the judgment of those people posting, those people linking, more often than not, is going to give you a very interesting and enormously valuable picture of what’s going on.
The more tightly linked we become to each other, the harder it is for each of us to remain independent… One of the fundamental characteristics of a network is that once you are linked in the network, the network starts to shape your views and starts to shape your interactions with everybody else… Groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is sort of the paradox of the wisdom of crowds or the paradox of collective intelligence… Networks make it harder for people to do that because they drive attention to the things that the network values…
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