Category Archives: Technologies That Support CI

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

Posted on September 14, 2013 by

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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Tribute to a hero of boosting humankind’s collective intelligence

Posted on July 4, 2013 by

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

Posted on July 4, 2013 by

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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Mapping the Complexity of Climate Change and Sustainability

Posted on January 31, 2011 by

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

Posted on June 30, 2010 by

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

Posted on June 30, 2010 by

“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

Posted on June 27, 2010 by

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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