Author Archives: George Pór

Howard Rheingold interviews Pierre Lévy on collective intelligence

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Mapping the Complexity of Climate Change and Sustainability

“Mapping the Complexity of Climate Change and Sustainability” is the title of a conversation in the Sustainability group at the Presencing Community site, which Toni Stafford, a wise, whole-brain woman opened on March 5. By “whole brain” I mean someone who … Continue reading

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Building the Arks

I feel this is a “building the Arks” time on Earth, vehicles built by our collective intelligence, competence, and wisdom, which should not leak while sailing to the other shore on the stormy waters of complexity and singularity waves. Where … Continue reading

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Meaning flows more smoothly if we compact before we ship

There was a skype call between @ffunch, @sebpaquet and @technoshaman on July 9, 2010. Below is a small pattern offered as a self-running demonstration of its content, inspired by our rich conversation. Can you think of any additional heading for … Continue reading

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CI, AI, UI or just I?

The term “Collective Intelligence” is sufficiently vague and positive that it is quite easy to agree that of course we want it. We want to be smarter together.  But we might imply quite different subtexts when we talk with each … Continue reading

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on hypertrails between vistas, which we create by walking on them

Good tools always have unintended uses stumbled upon by its individual and collective users. Hopefully, that will be the case of élan map, too. I can hardly wait for its alpha version to manifest so that we can start playing … Continue reading

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on junto, élan, Kosmic synchronicity, and movement cartography

“We are at a critical point in human history, where as a globally interdependent society, we must learn how to lower these barriers, share information, collaborate, and cocreate value in new ways.” @VenessaMiemis Learning how to learn that, and sharing … Continue reading

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Conversation transcript-> mindmap-> semantic web-> sane sentient AI

Imaginal cells in the protoplasm, from which the new civilization is emerging, discover the current state of their fluid identity, by being engaged in generative conversations with one another.  When we collaborate using the currently available tools, we are able … Continue reading

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Practices and Processes for boosting CI

…we need to develop methods of information harvesting and storage that are able to co-evolve with the contributions and constantly improving insights of the collaborators.
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Elements of collective intelligence in organizational context

collective intelligence — “The capacity of a social organism, such as a corporation, to: sense its needs and that of its environment (stakeholders) generate choices that will satisfy those collective needs anticipate the consequences of those choices to make choices … Continue reading

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