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I think we're getting better at creating collective intelligence. Every way we come up with to organize or connect a group of people is some kind of collective
by manx 5y ago
I think we're getting better at creating collective intelligence. Every way we come up with to organize or connect a group of people is some kind of collective intelligence. Some are more intelligent than others (e.g. World cafe method), some are mostly counter productive (e.g. today's Social Media), but we're learning from our mistakes. If some groups are much better in organizing themselves than others, these others will find out and adapt the approach. That means we're having some kind of evolution of collective intelligence at play. Look how small amd large tech organizations organize themselves to work towards a goal. Popular approches get shared and modified. Some prominent examples are: Google uses OKRs, Amazon uses small independent teams, Microsoft uses internal open source collaboration.
At some point, collective intelligence will be used to explicitly create better collective Intelligence systems. I believe that if humanity reaches that point, our species will survive and thrive. If we don't, we'll go extinct.
But I'm optimistic and think reaching that point in the near future is realistic. If only a company with enough resources realizes that they can combine the brains of their employees to create something more intelligent, they would have a huge competitive advantage. And that's worth working on.
If you're working on collective intelligence systems, too, please reach out.