Crowd Sourcing. Crowdsourcing: Chapter 7-What the Crowd Knows: Collective Intell. Whereas Chapter 6 explored the theory of collective intelligence, Chapter 7 looks at how collective intelligence is being employed in real-life crowdsourcing examples. In the late fall of 2004 Karim Lakhani, a PhD candidate at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, was suffering from a common affliction among graduate students. “I hit that point where I just couldn’t stand to spend any more time on my own dissertation,” recalls Lakhani. He’d been analyzing how innovations emerge in open source software, but after four years of work, he was burnt out. It was time for an extended vacation. “I stopped everything and read Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle.” Stephenson’s trilogy is a work of historical fiction about the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, and it made a big impact on Lakhani. “It’s all about the establishment of the Royal Society and the dawn of rational thinking about the world and the invention of calculus.”
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