I have not personally read the book but it is on my list. However, I did recently read this article which focuses on the negative results of collective thinking. It does give a mention or two to positive uses of crowd thinking though.
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > I've been reading this critter: > http://tinyurl.com/hexhe > .. and am interested in its application to social modeling, and > possibly business/organizational modeling. > > The thesis is that good decisions can be made by crowds if they are: > - Diverse > - Independent > - Decentralized > - Good method for aggregating the results. > > I started on the book a while back while discouraged after the > democrats shot themselves in the foot the last election. Thinking > crowds were stupid, I was surprised a bit by the author's thesis. > > Anyone read it? Have opinions? Got ideas how to apply it to > community modeling? > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore > http://backspaces.net - http://redfish.com - http://friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
