Collective Intelligence comes of age
Tom Atlee is one of my heros. For years he has been running the very excellent Co-Intelligence Institute from which I gather lots of information and inspiration. Recently he sent out an email on the emergence of collective intelligence as a field of practice here’s what he has to say:
“Collective intelligence, as a field of study and practice, is taking off. Some really interesting work is being done, quite beyond the dialogue and deliberative democracy realms we focus on at the Co-Intelligence Institute. It turns out that even when thousands of people don’t talk to each other at all, they can still be (somewhat mysteriously) collectively brilliant in solving problems. All told, there seem to be at least eight different — and often mutually reinforcing — types of collective intelligence, which are briefly described here”
The links in that post could make for a fine week’s worth of reading.
