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Despite a lasting surge in media, business, and academic interest, proven mechanisms via which to harness the wisdom of crowds remain in short supply.

how to properly incentivize the participants in a system, such that they generate meaningful, unbiased input.

What happens, however, if we can increasingly find, aggregate, and allocate resources without the organizational infrastructure we’ve created? What if we do not need organizational proxies, or at least, the kind of proxies we’ve come to rely on, for most things we do? In his book “Here Comes Everybody,” Clay Shirky, professor of new media at NYU, writes, “When we change the way we communicate, we change society.”

organizations we have built are not pre-ordained, inevitable, or immutable creations—they are products of particular times, outgrowths of existing technological, social, and demographic forces

I do have one minor complaint, that given their networking abilities,

the Na’vi should not be so technologically inferior to the humans. On

Earth, the largest barrier to technological progression was that

information that existed in the brains of primitive humans could not

be easily shared or preserved. As soon as writing was developed,

suddenly it was possible to store information outside of the brain,

and record and build upon knowledge. The knowledge available to a

human or tribe went from one brain’s worth (and a minimal amount of

oral tradition), to thousands, and ultimately billions of brains’

worth. The result was a technological and social explosion. Hominids

have had technology like spears for about half a million years, but

only 7,000 years after the development of writing we had left the

planet. And the sharing of knowledge is still undergoing a revolution

with the development of the internet. Now we have instantaneous

access to the combined knowledge of the entire history of humanity.

There will be no need to explicitly search out interesting people to follow unless I want to.

Each of the users I’m connected to will have a weight associated with them, which reflects how closely our interests match each other.  Each time I read (and perhaps rank) a tweet from someone, the weight they are given by my ranking algorithm is increased, so content they generate in the future will be more likely to show up near the top of my incoming stream.

Waze is a social mobile application providing free turn-by-turn navigation based on the live conditions of the road.

100% powered by users, the more you drive, the better it gets.

“Normally, a human makes a request of a computer, and the computer does the computation of the task,” he said. “But artificial artificial intelligences like Mechanical Turk invert all that. The computer has a task that is easy for a human but extraordinarily hard for the computer. So instead of calling a computer service to perform the function, it calls a human.”

I recognized that participatory culture could indeed explain very well the behavior we were seeing online, and by that point other people had started to pick it up, in some cases not necessarily knowing where it came from. It was in the air.

the tendency was to depict them as excess consumers

everyone agreed that what we don't need is some kind of global government or a new set of international bureaucracies piled on the existing ones

embracing more agile, networked structures enabled by global networks for new kinds of collaboration

Wikipedia has become the lazy man’s Google: why bother sifting
through 100 search results if chances are that someone has already done this
job for you in a Wikipedia entry?

every single human being can freely
share in the sum of all knowledge

Collective intelligence is a term that refers to the computational abilities of a group of agents

people trust new classes of aggregators and filters, whether Google or Twitter or Wikipedia

The social characteristic of deciding who to trust is a key feature of authority