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Transparently-shared ideas, like those that circulate on popular social networks such as Digg, Delicious, and StumbleUpon, may be destroying people's creativity. According to a new study published today by two cognitive scientists, people who share ideas in large groups tend to stagnate rather than innovate. They "glom onto" popular ideas and then don't pursue new discoveries or breakthroughs because they've already accepted the common wisdom of the crowd.
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Social computation and creativity » Blog Archive » MIT Handbook
Since last year I was contributing to MIT project that attempts to create a comprehensive Handbook of Collective Intelligence. This project was initiated by the newly created MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI). It is quite logical that the managers of this project decided to use a collective intelligence technique to describe the collective intelligence itself. The collective intelligence techniques (e.g. human-based computation ) that process natural languages are ideally suited for this purpose and were successfully used to describe themselves in the past.