YourView: Put your view where it counts. VISION - About YourView Australia. THE WORLD AFTER BIG DATA: WHAT THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION MEANS FOR US. By Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich) Never before were politicians, business leaders, and scientists more urgently needed to master the challenges ahead of us. We are in the middle of a third industrial revolution. While we see the symptoms, such as the financial and economic crisis, cybercrime and cyberwar, we haven't understood the implications well.
But at the end of this socio-economic transformation, we will live in a digital society. This comes with breath-taking opportunities and challenges, as they occur only every 100 years. Big Data: a magic wand. But do we know how to use it? Let me start with Big Data. The potential of Big Data spans across all areas of society. Big Data applications are now spreading like wildfire.
What's the next big thing after Big Data? But we need to think a step ahead and realize that we are just at the beginning of a transformation process, which is about to change human history. Thus, how will the digital revolution transform our societies? Software takes advantage of collective intelligence to improve decision-making.
Researchers at the Experimental Economics Laboratory in the Universitat Jaume I, coordinated by the lecturer Gerardo Sabater from the Area of Foundations of Economic Analysis, have developed the first Spanish software that leverages the collective intelligence of employees and customers to improve decision-making in the company. The Agora Market platform can implement prediction markets in an enterprise as a tool for improving the efficiency of internal information management and strategic decision-making. Prediction markets are speculative markets in which anonymous and motivated employees or customers of the company participate, in order to predict future events and probabilities of their occurrence.
As Sabater explains, "Individuals buy and sell stocks based on their own predictions of what they think it will work or not, and after that they get real money for the actions that match their predictions. That enables to track real time what an informed group believes that will happen". Software | Tim van Gelder. A core part of my work for the past fifteen years has been development of software to support reasoning, argument and critical thinking. This work has resulted in YourView (2012)ShowtheCase (2010)bCisive 2 (2008)bCisive (2008)Rationale (2006)Reason! Able (2000)Reason 2 (1999)Reason! (1998) In movie terms, I was producer and director, but a team of others – most notably Andy Bulka – provided creative input and actually built the products. YourView (2012) YourView is a virtual forum where Australians can express their views on major public issues.
ShowtheCase (2010) An argument mapping add-in for Microsoft Word. bCisive 2 (Dec 2008) bCisive (Feb 2008) Rationale (2006) Reason! Reason! Reason! Like this: Like Loading...