“Are you saying that Collaborative Intelligence will prevail over Artificial Intelligence?”
Leaving half of my allotted time for audience involvement always pays off. If anyone knows who asked the question above, please let me know. I owe him a drink. My answer of “Well, um, yes,” was insufficient to pay him back for getting to the crux of the issue so elegantly. His question will inform and improve the next two talks I’m giving, and hopefully a third if it works out.
New online social applications, specifically blogging, tagging, and social networks, are lining up to provide an astonishing improvement in how the Internet provides information to you and me. The services we’ll have by 2008 will make today’s best pale in comparison — and I’m thrilled with the what’s available so far. The improvement is the result of aggregating the online gestures of millions of broadband humans in very simple ways. For instance, I’m a habituall reader of Delicious Popular. Certainly, all the technology links which flow through it are helpful professionally, but that doesn’t involve me emotionally. It’s times like today when the most beautiful things appear which addict me at a far deeper level.
I’m committed to working with two startups right now, and there’s a tagging-related company that I might start. All three are working to sum up online gestures in new ways to serve us all better. For Wireless Ink, it’s the gestures of mobile web users. Dave and I think that we can make the mobile web transparent to broadband Internet users in ways it never has been and needs to be. At Delight, it’s the gestures of women, assembled in savvier ways than I’ve seen elsewhere. The Collaborative Intelligence of mobile web users and women will teach us all a lot.
Souls in the Great Machine - conversations at AC2005
After the last two days of being immersed in Accelerating Change 2005, I spent this afternoon going over the meta patterns of the conversations occurring in the conference. What I heard were three distinctly different interpretations, of not only the
Souls in the Great Machine v.2 - conversation with Ralf
I just got off Skypbay with Ralf Beukar, after an hour long conversation on the design thinking controversy, adding our global perspective to the US centric view we’re constantly being exposed to. btw, is it just me or have you
[...] What caught my attention enough to stop and read, however, was this particular writer’s use of the term collaborative intelligence. He uses that phrase to mean the collection of social applications now mushrooming all over the web, including but not limited to blogging, tagging and social networks. [...]
Scott, good to see you at the Pie event the other day. Was interested to see you were at AC2005, which I learned about only after the fact, to my frustration. Per your talk, I think there is a synthesis of the two worldviews. I’m a blog newbie, and not sure if my trackback worked, so here’s the link - http://netthink.typepad.com/net_think/