Author Archives: George Pór

The size of one’s life

Posted on October 24, 2009 by George Pór

“Life Shrinks or Expands in proportion to one’s courage. ” – Anais Nin The story of this unusual portray Called “Anais Nin: Come As Your Madness” Is here.

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C’est par amour que nous changeons l’histoire…

Posted on October 23, 2009 by George Pór

In her response to my blog entry on “Why we need an English edition of this site” Michelle Holliday, wrote: > how can we nurture enough cross-pollination between language groups to support the collective intelligence of this group? I’m grateful to … Continue reading →

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Wrapping the conference in a blanket of collective intelligence (CI)

Posted on October 17, 2009 by George Pór

Since I published The Quest for Collective Intelligence in the anthology on “Community Building: Renewing Spirit and learning in Business” (1995), I knew that a moment will come within my lifetime, when all what we know about CI will need … Continue reading →

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Learning expedition into global-scale CI

Posted on October 17, 2009 by George Pór

One of my first inspirations that lead to the ideas about wrapping a conference in a blanket of collective intelligencewas “Learning Expedition into Higher Order Global Learning” (1990) a funding proposal that came two decades too early and never got funded. … 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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Facilitating the local/global dynamics of CI calls for a collective sensing organ

Posted on September 21, 2009 by George Pór

Robin Temple commented on the Chaordic Dialogue Practice blogpost. Instead replying to it in that thread of comments, I’ve chosen to put the thoughts that it triggered in a new entry, as to give more visibility to it and our … Continue reading →

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From hardware-based sensors of the physical to software-based sensors of the social

Posted on September 20, 2009 by George Pór

Quotes in this blogpost are from “Ecological Computing,” by John Seely Brown and Feng Zhao. Confluences and their combined confluence Looking back at the first decades of the third millennium, humans will see them as the era of the Great Transition, an … Continue reading →

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Fast-forward to personal singularity via collective intelligence

Posted on August 15, 2009 by George Pór

It used to be that every now and then, but not more frequently than once in a couple of years, I met a person on the edge of learning who caused me to re-focus and shift my direction of authoring … Continue reading →

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Report on the first contemplative co-tweeting, Part 2: The emergent story

Posted on July 27, 2009 by George Pór

There’s a story emerging from the tweets of our experiment, or to be more precise, as many stories as people care for re-reading them (in the files posted here), and connecting them into a bouquet of meaning. Those flowers of … Continue reading →

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Report on the first contemplative co-tweeting, Part 1: What happened

Posted on July 26, 2009 by George Pór

Twitter is an intensely personal experience, yet a communal one, at the same time. However, those two dimensions never meet. Our individual tweets create the value of the whole, yet we only benefit individually from the information we receive or … Continue reading →

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