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Organization: What Cities And Brains Have In Common
I long ago stopped my subscription to the Flat Earth Society newsletter, but I still have reason to believe that cities are flat, and this is a third similarity between cities and brains. Even if you live in San Francisco, your city lies on the surface of the Earth, rather than, say, being built in a three-dimensional array below ground, or like the Borg cube. Our cortex is also flat, and if you’re lucky enough to be used in an experiment, researchers will flatten your gray matter onto the nearest cold metal table.
Just look at the successes of crowdsourcing to see how the crowd is an illusion. Wikipedia seems like a good example of a crowd of people who have created a great resource. But at a conference last year I asked Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about how articles were created. He said that the vast majority are the product of a motivated individual. After articles are created, they are curated--corrected, improved and extended--by many different people. Some articles are indeed group creations that evolved out of a sentence or two.
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