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Crowds are never wise, since they promote the status quo intelligence, which today is frightingly low.
by Antiglobalism 18y ago
Crowds are never wise, since they promote the status quo intelligence, which today is frightingly low.
- jamiequint 18y agoActually, thats not true. When a crowd operates according to certain constraints (see "The Wisdom of Crowds" by James Surowiecki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds) they don't promote status quo intelligence, but rather gather the knowledge of individuals composing the crowd.
- michael_dorfman 18y agoSure, but those constraints pretty much rule out most Web (2.0) apps, and certainly fail in the Digg case in the original post. (Cf. the "too imitative" heading in the link you provided.)