Category Archives: Collective Intellect Augments Individual

Letting collective intelligence use me for organizing itself

Posted on February 3, 2014 by George Pór

I emailed a tweet I’ve just stumbled upon in my tweetstream to a colleague because I knew it had to do with one of her interests. We cannot spend all our time on hanging out in the stream but the … Continue reading →

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Conversations with Douglas Engelbart

Posted on July 4, 2013 by George Pór

Doug has just passed away. I honor his memory by publishing this interview I made with him 26 years ago. Conversations with Douglas Engelbart by George Pór Computer Currents, 1987 The coming “big bang” of the ’90s will be an … Continue reading →

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Search for Earthlings’ Collective Intelligence (SECI)

Posted on September 23, 2009 by George Pór

SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Currently, it is the largest distributed computing effort with over 3 million users. What would it take to launch a social experiment run by … Continue reading →

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When community intelligence becomes market intelligence…

Posted on May 24, 2004 by George Pór

Have you ever wondered what is common in “community intelligence,” “swarm intelligence,” “smart mobs” and “tipping points”? According to market intelligence guru, Britton Manasco, they are all about a “drift toward potential innovations that draw on the unspoken and unanticipated knowledge of today’s (and tomorrow’s) customers.”
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The idividual/community relationship

Posted on December 23, 2003 by George Pór

The change in human consciousness which we call the enlightenment is the most decisive force shaping our present society – its effects are still being worked out. In particular it has affected the relationship of the individual and society, and … Continue reading →

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Double helix of social evolution

Posted on June 30, 2003 by George Pór

Visiting with a friend in San Francisco, I picked up a book which probes the posibility that information transmitted by coherent biophotonic light that living cells–including our DNA–produce, can be received in defocalized state of consciousness. It’s “The Cosmic Serpent: … Continue reading →

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Being “hypertinent”

Posted on May 11, 2003 by George Pór

I’ve just picked up an interview that Derrick De Kerckhove gave a year ago in TheFeature :: It’s All About The Mobile Internet. Here’s why I blog it. I’m in the process of trying to organize my thoughts about the … Continue reading →

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Towards an attention economy of CI

Posted on April 20, 2003 by George Pór

“I didn’t adequately address ‘…the bipolarity opposition between the Net and the Self.’  Note to self, need another framework to explain how self-serving utility pursuits result in emergent value.  Note to Net, feel free to chime in.” from Ross Mayfield’s … Continue reading →

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Collective intellect augments individual

Posted on April 19, 2003 by George Pór

Scott Leslie wrote in his EdTechPost blog: “Don’t you just love when, in the process of thinking about an issue, you come to a question that you know others are looking at and that is more than you could handle … Continue reading →

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