table of contents
Table of Contents
Dedication / iPublisher’s Preface / Iii
Foreword by Yochai Benkler Remix Hassan Masum
The Wealth of Networks: Highlights remixed / Xi
Editor’s Preface / Xxi
Table of Contents / Xxv
A / What is collective intelligence and what will we do about it? (Thomas W. Malone, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence) / 1
B / Co-Intelligence, collective intelligence, and conscious evolution (Tom Atlee, Co-Intelligence Institute) / 5
C / A metalanguage for computer augmented collective intelligence (Prof. Pierre Lévy, Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence, FRSC) / 15
I / INDIVIDUALS & GROUPS
I-01 / Foresight
I-01-01 / Safety Glass (Karl Schroeder, science fiction author and foresight consultant) / 23
I-01-02 / 2007 State of the Future (Jerome C. Glenn & Theodore J. Gordon, United Nations Millennium Project) / 29
I-02 / Dialogue & Deliberation
I-02-01 / Thinking together without ego: Collective intelligence as an evolutionary catalyst (Craig Hamilton and Claire Zammit, Collective-Intelligence.US) / 39
I-02-02 / The World Café: Awakening collective intelligence
and committed action (Juanita Brown, David Isaacs
and the World Café Community) / 47
I-02-03 / Collective intelligence and the emergence of wholeness (Peggy Holman, Nexus for Change, The Change Handbook) / 55
I-02-04 / Knowledge creation in collective intelligence (Bruce LaDuke, Fortune 500, HyperAdvance.com) / 65
I-02-05 / The Circle Organization: Structuring for collective wisdom (Jim Rough, Dynamic Facilitation & The Center for Wise Democracy) / 75
I-03 / Civic Intelligence
I-03-01 / Civic intelligence and the public sphere (Douglas Schuler, Evergreen State College, Public Sphere Project) / 83
I-03-02 / Civic intelligence and the security of the homeland (John Kesler with Carole and David Schwinn, IngeniusOnline) / 95
I-03-03 / Creating a Smart Nation (Robert Steele, OSS.Net) / 107
I-03-04 / University 2.0: Informing our collective intelligence (Nancy Glock-Grueneich, HIGHEREdge.org) / 131
I-03-05 / Producing communities of communications and foreknowledge (Jason “JZ” Liszkiewicz, Reconfigure.org) / 145
I-03-06 / Global Vitality Report 2025: Learning to transform conflict and think together effectively (Peter+Trudy Johnson-Lenz, Johnson-Lenz.com ) / 157
I-04 / Electronic Communities & Distributed Cognition
I-04-01 / Attentional capital and the ecology of online social networks (Derek Lomas, Social Movement Lab, UCSD) / 163
I-04-02 / A slice of life in my virtual community (Howard Rheingold, Whole Earth Review, Author & Educator) / 173
I-04-03 / Shared imagination (Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart, Bootstrap) / 197
I-05 / Privacy & Openness
I-05-01 / We’re all swimming in media: End-users must be able to keep secrets (Mitch Ratcliffe, BuzzLogic & Tetriad) / 201
I-05-02 / Working openly (Lion Kimbro, Programmer and Activist) / 205
I-06 / Integral Approaches & Global Contexts
I-06-01 / Meta-intelligence for analyses, decisions, policy, and action: The Integral Process for working on complex issues (Sara Nora Ross, Ph.D. ARINA & Integral Review) / 213
I-06-02 / Collective intelligence: From pyramidal to global (Jean-Francois Noubel, The Transitioner) / 225
I-06-03 / Cultivating collective intelligence: A core leadership competence in a complex world (George Pór, Fellow at Universiteit van Amsterdam) / 235
II / LARGE-SCALE COLLABORATION
II-01 / Altruism, Group IQ, and Adaptation
II-01-01 / Empowering individuals towards collective online production (Keith Hopper, KeithHopper.com) / 245
II-01-02 / Who’s smarter: chimps, baboons or bacteria? The power of Group IQ (Howard Bloom, author) / 251
II-01-03 / A collectively generated model of the world (Marko A. Rodriguez, Los Alamos National Laboratory) / 261
II-02 / Crowd Wisdom and Cognitive Bias
II-02-01 / Science of CI: Resources for change (Norman L Johnson, Chief Scientist at Referentia Systems, former LANL) / 265
II-02-02 / Collectively intelligent systems (Jennifer H. Watkins, Los Alamos National Laboratory) / 275
II-02-03 / A contrarian view (Jaron Lanier, scholar-in-residence, CET, UC Berkeley & Discover Magazine) / 279
II-03 / Semantic Structures & The Semantic Web
II-03-01 / Information Economy Meta Language (Interview with Professor Pierre Lévy, by George Pór) / 283
II-03-02 / Harnessing the collective intelligence of the World-Wide Web (Nova Spivack, RadarNetworks, Web 3.0) / 293
II-03-03 / The emergence of a global brain (Francis Heylighen, Free University of Brussels) / 305
II-04 / Information Networks
II-04-01 / Networking and mobilizing collective intelligence (G. Parker Rossman, Future of Learning Pioneer) / 315
II-04-02 / Toward high-performance organizations: A strategic role for Groupware (Douglas C. Engelbart, Bootstrap) / 333
II-04-03 / Search panacea or ploy: Can collective intelligence
improve findability? (Stephen E. Arnold, Arnold IT, Inc.) / 375
II-05 / Global Games, Local Economies, & WISER
II-05-01 / World Brain as EarthGame (Robert Steele and many others, Earth Intelligence Network) / 389
II-05-02 / The Interra Project (Jon Ramer and many others) / 399
II-05-03 / From corporate responsibility to Backstory Management (Alex Steffen, Executive Editor, Worldchanging.com) / 409
II-05-04 / World Index of Environmental & Social Responsibility (WISER)
By the Natural Capital Institute / 413
II-06 / Peer-Production & Open Source Hardware
II-06-01 / The Makers’ Bill of Rights (Jalopy, Torrone, and Hill) / 421
II-06-02 / 3D Printing and open source design (James Duncan, VP of Technology at Marketingisland) / 423
II-06-03 / rebearth™: Growing a world 6.6 billion people would want to live in (Marc Stamos, B-Comm, LL.B) / 425
II-07 / Free Wireless, Open Spectrum, and Peer-to-Peer
II-07-01 / Montréal Community Wi-Fi (Île Sans Fil) (Interview with Michael Lenczner by Mark Tovey) / 433
II-07-02 / The power of the peer-to-peer future (Jock Gill, Founder, Penfield Gill Inc.) / 441
II-07-03 / Open spectrum (David Weinberger)
/ 445
II-08 / Mass Collaboration & Large-Scale Argumentation
II-08-01 / Mass collaboration, open source, and social entrepreneurship (Mark Tovey, Advanced Cognitive Engineering Lab, Institute of Cognitive Science, Carleton University) / 455
II-08-02 / Interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon (Hassan Masum, McLaughlin-Rotman Center for Global Health) / 467
II-08-03 / Achieving collective intelligence via large-scale argumentation (Mark Klein, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence) / 475
II-08-04 / Scaling up open problem solving (Hassan Masum &
Mark Tovey) / 485
D / Afterword: The Internet and the revitalization of democracy (The Rt. Honourable Paul Martin & Thomas Homer-Dixon) / 495
E / Glossary / 513
F / Index / 519
G / Three Lists
1. Strategic Reading Categories
2. Synopsis of the New Progressives
3. Fifty-Two Questions that Matter / 607
May the conversations continue…
This book, Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace, is not only a book; it is also a gathering of the tribes of CI, at least virtually, on the pages of this collection of essays and interviews.
Between the covers of the book, dozens of semantic and computational CI researchers; social activists; process consultants and facilitators; writers and journalists; foresight, educational and security specialists; and virtual community experts, come together to stimulate a global conversation that could take us all to the next level of conscious evolution.
In this volume, organizational professionals; “crowd wisdom” enthusiasts and opponents; search engine experts; political scientists; peer production champions, and many others, find each other and each other’s ideas. They are all inspired by the possibility that together we can find more co-intelligent solutions to today’s challenges than alone.
Thanks to the many contributors, and the good work of the editor and the publisher, the print edition of the book is too good an opportunity to miss in seeking those common patterns that connect the dots. This collection of writings is a fertile soil, from which the living ecosystem of CI ideas, practices, theories, connections and actions may grow, and contribute to the emergence of CI as a field of multi-disciplinary study and practice.
To host and facilitate that emergence, Tom Atlee, our friends and colleagues in the field, and I, have been envisioning a gathering of CI practitioners, called “Collective Intelligence Convergence,” for many years. That idea has been ripening through a series of iterative discussions. Hosting the interactive version of this book is its latest incarnation.
Contributors to this book are invited (although are not obliged) to host a review and revision process of their chapter online. They may also create links to other chapters or other works. Each chapter is presented in a wikified form and linked with a forum where authors can interact with reviewers and contributors of supplementary material. Authors of the original chapters can create new revisions, integrating reviewers’ comments. Although this is by no means the default, authors will also have the option to choose to create an “open text” version of the chapter (or sections of it) that any other author may edit.[1]
If you are a reader/explorer of the field you can:
· write a review on any chapter;
· connect points of interest to you with a hypertrail;
· participate in conversations about the subject of any chapter; and/or
· publish your own CI-related content.
Such public participation is an opportunity for CI Convergence to become a living laboratory, a platform for advancing CI practices worthy of replication, as well as a repository for the shared knowledge and intelligence of the CI field itself. All are invited to the edge of the field, which always involves constant interactive exchange among researchers and practitioners. We know that the state of the world needs collective intelligence more than ever, and more urgently than ever. May the conversations started by your engaging with the ideas of this book contribute to that goal.
See you online at http://cic.evolutionarynexus.org.
George Pór [2]
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[1] This book, and the online version of the book at www.oss.net/CIB, are the “record” copies and will remain stable. We will encourage a similar initiative for the forthcoming books on Peace Intelligence and Commercial Intelligence—all three comprise the first half of the new over-arching discipline of Public Intelligence. Anyone interested in hosting a book online can find excellent guidance at this URL:
http://www.shambhalainstitute.org/resources/how_to_host_a_book.pdf. .
[2] George Pór’s biographic summary can be found at his first contribution, page 235.