If you are interested in Surowiecki's ideas, I'd recommend reading some of the work by myself and my collegues on Social Decision Making using Web 2.0 applications (basically a push to bottom-up governance through social network-based power structures and web technology interfacing).
Smartocracy: Social Networks for Collective Decision Making http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~okram/papers/smartocracy-hicss2007.pdf AND Social Decision Making with Multi-Relational Networks and Grammar-Based Particle Swarms http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~okram/papers/grammar-decision-hicss2007.pdf AND Societal-Scale Decision Making Using Social Networks http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~okram/papers/societalscale-naacsos2004.pdf Enjoy!, Marko. On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 14:47 -0600, Giles Bowkett wrote: > I haven't read it but Surowiecki presented at South By Southwest this > year (because of the Web 2.0 connection) and I've listened to the > podcast of this presentation a couple times while working out. I > definitely recommend it and the book's on my list to read. > > Judging from that presentation, it sounds as if the book would have > probably had a more accurate but less catchy title if he had called it > "The Wisdom Of Decision-Making Markets," because what he says in the > speech is that it's really about how aggregate decisions, summed from > the decisions made by all individuals in a large group of people > competing against each other, consistently outperform the decisions of > the best-informed experts in those groups. > -- Marko A. Rodriguez CCS-3 Modeling, Algorithms and Informatics Los Alamos National Laboratory Phone +1 505 606 1691 Fax +1 505 665 6452 http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~okram ============================================================ 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
