I have just been reading Programming the Global Brain - MIT - Pdf - <a href="http://cci.mit.edu/publications/CCIwp2011-04.pdf" target="_blank">http://cci.mit.edu/publications/CCIwp2011-04.pdf</a> (more details below). <br>
<br>In my mind it connects with various other things - no time to explain the connections in depth - but perhaps worth noting them:<br><ul><li><a href="http://www.dadamac.net/network/gary-alexander" target="_blank">Gary Alexande</a>r - and his book <a title="eGaia.html" href="http://www.earthconnected.net/earthconnected/eGaia.html" target="_blank"> <span>eGaia, Growing a peaceful sustainable Earth through communications</span></a></li>
<li>Personal imaginations of a future related to more of a thinking-together life style <a href="http://www.appropedia.org/The_Future_We_Got%E2%80%93Earth_Date_Zero_Plus_Twenty_-_Pamela_Mclean" target="_blank">The Future we Got - Earth Date Zero Plus Twenty</a> - included in - <a href="http://pediapress.com/books/show/ee265024890e40cbe1f8244087e753/" target="_blank">The Future we Deserve</a> </li>
<li>Extensive work by David Pinto related to effective engagement, alignment and confluence <br></li><li><span>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 -<a href="http://collage-network.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Collage-network; Age of Collaboration</a></span></li>
<li><span>Aspects of collaboration and issues of the interface between human (analogue) approaches and computer (digital) ones</span></li><li><span>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</span> and appropriately - <a href="http://dadamac.posterous.com/collaboration-challenges-and-lessons-from-yeh" target="_blank">Collaboration challenges - and lessons from Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli </a> <br>
</li><li>Personal analysis of how things are now - <a href="http://www.appropedia.org/User:Dougald/NPT1PamelaMcLean" target="_blank">"The Invisible Revolution"</a> - included in - <a href="http://pediapress.com/books/show/07ebb0bdddb0412af5bfc25bc35d2a/" target="_blank">Despatches from the Invisible Revolution </a> <br>
</li></ul>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?<br>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>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. (<span class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</span>, <span class="gmail_sendername">Francis H</span>, Global Brain Discussion <<a href="mailto:gbrain@listserv.vub.ac.be" target="_blank">gbrain@listserv.vub.ac.be</a>>, p2p-foundation <<a href="mailto:p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org" target="_blank">p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org</a>>)<br>
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><a href="http://cci.mit.edu/publications/CCIwp2011-04.pdf" target="_blank"></a><br>
<div>Programming the Global Brain - MIT - Pdf - <a href="http://cci.mit.edu/publications/CCIwp2011-04.pdf" target="_blank">http://cci.mit.edu/publications/CCIwp2011-04.pdf</a></div><div><br>A quote from the recent paper named "Programming the Global
Brain"<br><br>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."<br>conclusion - excerpt :</div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i>"<b>A Call to Arms :</b></i></div><div><i><b><br></b></i></div><div><i>We have attempted to identify, in this short article, <b>some of the key challenges, opportunities, and strategies </b></i></div>
<div><i><b>involved in programming the emerging global brain.</b> Learning to do this well is, perhaps, even more urgent </i></div><div><i>than many people realize. Our world is faced with both existential threats of unprecedented seriousness </i></div>
<div><i>(such as the environment) and huge opportunities (such as for scientific and social progress). <b>We believe </b></i></div><div><i><b>that our ability to face the threats and opportunities of the coming century will be profoundly affected by </b></i></div>
<div><i><b>how well, and soon, we can master the art of programming our planet’s emerging global brain</b>."</i></div><div></div><div><br></div><div><i>Programming the Global Brain</i></div><div><i>Abraham Bernstein,</i></div>
<div><i>Mark Klein,</i></div><div><i>and Thomas W. Malone</i></div><div><i> </i></div><div><i>MIT Center for Collective Intelligence</i></div>
<div><i>MIT Center for Collective Intelligence Working Paper No. 2011-04</i></div>
<div><i>To appear in the Communications of the ACM May 2012, Vol. 55, Issue 5</i></div><div><i>November 2011</i></div><div><i>MIT Center for Collective Intelligence</i></div><div><i>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</i></div>
<div><a href="http://cci.mit.edu" target="_blank"><i>http://cci.mit.edu</i></a></div><br></div></div></div>
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