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Collective Intelligence


December 02, 2008

Let Us Please Frame Collective Intelligence As Big As It Is

Yesterday the New York Times published a great article about collective intelligence, "You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?"

It covers a lot of ground on this vital subject. But it misses a very important point.

This article joins others in framing the subject of "collective intelligence" in terms of (a) computerized, online, and other high-tech systems for (b) collective information gathering, forecasting, etc., (c) to empower marketing, investment strategies, consumerism, productivity, activist impact, government control, or people's general ability to track each other, individually or collectively.

But I suggest that collective intelligence is so much more than a way for one part of a whole system -- government agencies, advertisers, investors, activists -- to predict, control, track, or manipulate other parts of the system -- competitors, enemies, consumers, citizens, etc.

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posted by Tom Atlee on Tuesday December 2 2008

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May 15, 2008

Reflections on the evolution of choice and collective intelligence

I had an interesting conversation about choice today with my friend and colleague Adin Rogovin. We noticed that increased choice may increase or decrease happiness. Choice -- seen by most people as supporting happiness -- can be overwhelming, or false, or of poor quality. Lack of choice -- normally thought of as a source of unhappiness -- can make life simple, supporting happiness if one's life situation is otherwise satisfying. (And, of course, there is the variable of one's choice of attitude about life. Openhearted acceptance of "what is" supports happiness, while fighting it can generate suffering. But this is another totally separate variable.)

If we deconstruct choice into its components -- creating options, recognizing them, identifying a "right" option, and then selecting it -- we open up a whole other area of evolutionary inquiry.

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posted by Tom Atlee on Thursday May 15 2008

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May 08, 2008

Whole System Learning and Evolution -- and the New Journalism

A few days ago I stumbled on a new model for whole-system intelligence inspired by some work my friend Peggy Holman is doing with Journalism that Matters. These journalists are reexamining the kinds of stories they tell and their role in democracy, especially in light of how the rise of bloggers and other citizen journalists challenges mainstream media. Journalism that Matters is trying to revision that challenge into a create leap for the whole field.

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I suspect this model is a draft and will shift over the coming months. This original version takes the form of four overlapping circles -- INFORMATION, CONVERSATION, VISION, and ACTION -- arranged in a circle such that they flow round and round to generate collective intelligence -- an iterative, creative, collective learning cycle. Here's how it goes:

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posted by Tom Atlee on Thursday May 8 2008

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April 27, 2008

Gathering storms of unwanted change

In addition to its immediate relevance for our personal behaviors and health and as a public health issue, this report from The Ecologist on "The Gathering Brainstorm" of damaging Wi-Fi impacts, includes the sentence "The technology is now moving far faster than it can be tested or regulated."


This is one of the rare occasions of a specific reference to a phenomenon that really concerns me:

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posted by Tom Atlee on Sunday April 27 2008

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Let Us Please Frame Collective Intelligence As Big As It Is
December 02, 2008

Reflections on the evolution of choice and collective intelligence
May 15, 2008

Whole System Learning and Evolution -- and the New Journalism
May 08, 2008

Gathering storms of unwanted change
April 27, 2008

Conversations That Shape the Future: A Review of THE WORLD CAFE
July 15, 2005

A Spectrum of Politics and Governance Grounded in Empowered Citizen Dialogue and Deliberation
July 04, 2005

Blog Power vs Media's Breathless Irrelevancies
June 27, 2005

Australia's Amazing Conference (and Work) on Deliberative Innovations
June 19, 2005

What does it mean to share ideas with a bird?
June 13, 2005

An Abundance of Collective Intelligence and Disaster - Why?
May 11, 2005

The Evolution of Genes and Meaning
May 10, 2005

A Citizens' Consensus Conference on Nanotechnology in Wisconsin
May 04, 2005

Brad Blanton's Campaign and the Transformation of Democracy
April 28, 2005

Open Source Journalism and Public Framing of Issues
April 19, 2005

A New Collective Intelligence Friend
April 14, 2005

Tom Atlee Radio Interview May 1, 2005
April 14, 2005

Terri Schiavo and Collective Intelligence
April 01, 2005

A Very Stimulating Online Conference
February 16, 2005

How can Society Learn Wisdom from Crises?
February 13, 2005

Dystopias as Collective Intelligence
February 12, 2005

Is Collective Intelligence Like Individual Intelligence?
December 28, 2004

Distinguishing Co-Intelligence and Collective Intelligence
September 05, 2004

The Co-Intelligence Institute seeks communities for Community Intelligence projects
September 05, 2004

Polarization and Intelligence
September 05, 2004

Community Intelligence Resources
September 05, 2004

Can we move beyond reptilian logic?
September 04, 2004

 

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Let Us Please Frame Collective Intelligence As Big As It Is

Reflections on the evolution of choice and collective intelligence

Whole System Learning and Evolution -- and the New Journalism

Gathering storms of unwanted change

Protect Sources or Not? - More Complex than It Seems

Conversations That Shape the Future: A Review of THE WORLD CAFE

Citizens Juries to Choose Supreme Court Justices?!

A Spectrum of Politics and Governance Grounded in Empowered Citizen Dialogue and Deliberation

Blog Power vs Media's Breathless Irrelevancies

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