We are now a world of consumer generated media.
Instead of turning to CNN to see a biased, edited version of the world, we now turn to the Web with the likes of YouTube, Wikipedia and even FaceBook to find out what's going on in our community...
... our community that now encompasses the entire world.
The video on this page is a synopsis of the most memorable Web videos of 2007.
Showing posts with label collective consiousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collective consiousness. Show all posts
Monday
The Collective Mind
Gerry McGovern makes an interesting case in his post, Web facilitates wisdom of crowds.
He argues that the collective intelligence is perhaps more reliable than that of an expert.
An expert's advice could be skewed to the expert's own views and experiences, and therefore could be biased. Also, statistical research is only the analysis of the limited population surveyed. There is always a degree of error.
Mass collaboration, by definition will be free of any one person's particular biases. And all the skepticism of Wikipedia could be unwarranted. Most people want to take credit for putting in accurate information and not be blacklisted for putting up bad data.
And that's why The Borg was such a formidable enemy. :)
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