Author Archives: George Pór

Return to Eden? Promises and Perils on the Road to an Omnipotent Global Intelligence

New paper by Francis Heylighen. Global Brain Institute Abstract: The concept of Singularity envisages a technology-driven explosion in intelligence. This paper argues that the resulting suprahuman intelligence will not be centralized in a single AI system, but distributed across all people … Continue reading

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When transparent communication pervades all our social spaces…

Alia wrote: > as long as there is a felt sense of a “me” to make these choices “consciously,” the choices MUST be exercised, yes, that is our response-ability. In the “effortless effort” state/stage, I suggest these are not experienced … Continue reading

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Movie watching as transparent communication

I’ve just come home form Curzon Renoir, an art cinema in London, where I watched Kuma. “Kuma” is a Turkish word that means “second wife”, describing the women drawn into a traditional, polygamous Muslim family at a later stage, by … Continue reading

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Tribute to a hero of boosting humankind’s collective intelligence

Doug Engelbart died. My gratitude to Doug is more alive then ever. At the time of receiving this sad news, there were 2,310,000 webpages referencing “collective intelligence,” the science of which he was one of the first and most influential … Continue reading

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Conversations with Douglas Engelbart

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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Participatory wisdom and sustainability

See on Scoop.it – The Wisdom Frontier George Por‘s insight: In this blog Tom offers a useful checklist for those wanting to create wiser communal and social institutions and systems. See on http://www.tomatleeblog.com

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World (or knowledge) Cafe conversations reveal collective wisdom

See on Scoop.it – The Wisdom Frontier Financial forecast model: A Microsoft Excel template could become an ‘Open source’ project 12 June 2006. World (or knowledge) Cafe conversations reveal collective wisdom 5 May 2013. Crowd funding needs the crowd accountability, … Continue reading

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Wisdom Research | The University of Chicago

See on Scoop.it – The Wisdom Frontier Wisdom Research | The University of Chicago See on wisdomresearch.org

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“Saving the world differently…”

“Saving the world differently…”  was the title of an event, last February, which I’ve been waiting for with joyous anticipation. It was organized by the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), of which I am a … Continue reading

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Dr. Peter H. Diamandis — We are evolving into meta-intelligence group-minds

See on Scoop.it – The Wisdom Frontier Dr. Peter H. Diamandis — Abundance Abundance Physician, entrepreneur, founder and chairman of the X PRIZE Foundation. Author of Abundance http://GF2045.com/… George Por‘s insight: This video is one of the pitch vids  selling … Continue reading

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