I have just been reading Programming the Global Brain - MIT - Pdf - http://cci.mit.edu/publications/CCIwp2011-04.pdf (more details below).

In my mind it connects with various other things - no time to explain the connections in depth - but perhaps worth noting them:

Gary Alexander - and his book eGaia, Growing a peaceful sustainable Earth through communications
Personal imaginations of a future related to more of a thinking-together life style The Future we Got - Earth Date Zero Plus Twenty - included in - The Future we Deserve
Extensive work by David Pinto related to effective engagement, alignment and confluence
Practical work I am doing with Nikki Fishman - relates to the idea of being "stronger together" in various situations, especially in the changing world of work - theory not visible yet but the practical actuality we are working on starting to show at - Collage-network; Age of Collaboration
Aspects of collaboration and issues of the interface between human (analogue) approaches and computer (digital) ones
Collaborataion challenges, particularly across these two types: 1 - people who want to "know what they are going to do" before they do it so they can plan to do it effectively, 2 - people who want to "start doing it before they plan" so they can let what they are going to do emerge more freely and appropriately - Collaboration challenges - and lessons from Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli
Personal analysis of how things are now - "The Invisible Revolution" - included in - Despatches from the Invisible Revolution

I would love to be part of some of the collaborative active thinking around these issues. How do we bring together the best of "creative human-being thinking and problem solving" with the best of "digital, programmed, information processing and problem solving". As we human intelligence and artificial intelligence draw closer together will it be a "marriage made in heaven or a marriage made in hell" .... and what of the character of our progeny?
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Thanks to everyone along the way who has passed on the Programming the Global Brain link so that I have had the opportunity to read it. (Dante-Gabryell Monson, Francis H, Global Brain Discussion <gbrain@listserv.vub.ac.be>, p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org>)

Programming the Global Brain - MIT - Pdf - http://cci.mit.edu/publications/CCIwp2011-04.pdf

A quote from the recent paper named "Programming the Global Brain"

As the scale, scope, and connectivity of these human computer networks increase, we believe it will become increasingly useful to view all the people and computers on our planet as constituting a kind of "global brain."
conclusion - excerpt :

"A Call to Arms :

We have attempted to identify, in this short article, some of the key challenges, opportunities, and strategies

involved in programming the emerging global brain. Learning to do this well is, perhaps, even more urgent

than many people realize. Our world is faced with both existential threats of unprecedented seriousness

(such as the environment) and huge opportunities (such as for scientific and social progress). We believe

that our ability to face the threats and opportunities of the coming century will be profoundly affected by

how well, and soon, we can master the art of programming our planet’s emerging global brain."

Programming the Global Brain

Abraham Bernstein,

Mark Klein,

and Thomas W. Malone

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence Working Paper No. 2011-04

To appear in the Communications of the ACM May 2012, Vol. 55, Issue 5

November 2011

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

http://cci.mit.edu

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