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What is the ultimate idea? We, along with many others, believe that grandest of all notions is how ideas themselves are formed within the biological neural networks of the brain. If the principle behind this highly prized cognitive mechanism can be captured, understood, and then implemented within lightning fast machine intelligence, then we have attained the ultimate idea, the one that can generate all subsequent ideas. In 1994, this company disclosed to the world an invention called the " Creativity Machine ," a computational paradigm that came the closest yet to emulating the fundamental brain mechanisms responsible for idea formation. Over the next decade, we partnered with both government and industry to carry out projects that spanned all realms of human endeavor.
Imagination Engines Inc.
Bluefin Labs
"If you can't measure it, you can't sell it. To be useful, Social TV analytics has to encompass data from both TV programs and TV commercials. We're excited to work with Bluefin Labs on our broadcast of the 2012 Olympics -- a huge TV programming as well as advertising event." “In the new world of paid, owned, and earned media, Bluefin Labs is filling measurement and data gaps that exist between television networks and advertisers. As marketers seek to connect social media to paid TV media, Bluefin Labs provides an ideal solution .”
The Internet is constantly evolving. As the speed, flexibility and complexity of connections increase exponentially, the Web is increasingly beginning to resemble a biological analog; the human brain. But what exactly is it that’s makes us, or the Web, smart? In the brain, neurologists now believe that it is the density and flexibility of the connections between neurons, not simply neurons themselves, which are at the root of intelligence. These chemically-mediated connections are called "synapses."
Synaptic Web
F irstly, thank you for your interest and I hope readers will contribute their own considered analysis and gut intuitions here intelligently, regardless of whether or not they agree with these postulations and the presentation of them. Secondly, I’m looking forward to our interactions and building upon this model together. Thirdly, I have the flu whilst I write this so my own brain may not be optimally functioning! Nevertheless, I promised a knowledge share and here it is. This post is an initiating conversation in a continuum of “negotiations of intellect” (discourse) I’m engaging in with others interested in the subject matter, as well as within myself.
The Global Brain, the Semantic Web, the Singularity and 360-2020 consciousness to create the Web of WE: socially-voiced co-creation - un knol de 刘Twain
The best symbiosis of man and computer is where a program learns from humans but notices things they would not
Birth of the global mind - FT.com
Le XXIe siècle n’a pas commencé en l’an 2000, cette date parfaitement artificielle, mais il commence véritablement aujourd’hui, après une petite décennie de tâtonnements d’où sont en train d’émerger les grandes tendances de fond, les vraies lignes de force du siècle à venir. Pour Joël de Rosnay, biologiste et docteur ès sciences, président de la Cité des sciences et de l’industrie à Paris, futurologue et auteur de plus d’une trentaine d’ouvrages, le monde actuel est en pleine effervescence et l’être humain à la veille d’une nouvelle aventure qui va transformer aussi bien sa conscience de soi que son rapport aux autres. Quelles vont être les grandes tendances du XXIe siècle?
Joël de Rosnay: «L’homme du futur sera relié au cerveau planétaire»
This article presents some thoughts about the future of intelligence on Earth. In particular, I discuss the similarities between the Internet and the brain, and how I believe the emerging Semantic Web will make this similarity even greater. The Semantic Web enables the formal communication of a higher level of language -- metalanguage. Metalanguage is language about language -- language that encodes knowledge about how to interpret and use information.
This Blog has Moved to NovaSpivack.com: Minding the Planet: From Semantic Web to Global Mind
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Conceptual Framework for Online Identity Roles « emergent by design
I just wrapped up a final project for an aesthetics course this semester, the assignment being to create a “Database of the Self.” I chose to make the database as a representation of the roles we play in terms of how we interact with information online. The roles are overlaid on a panarchy, which shows a visualization of adaptive lifecycles. Though the evolution of every idea or meme won’t necessarily follow this specific path, (it may in fact be rhizomatic, with multiple feedback loops), this begins to flesh out what we become as nodes within an enmeshed series of networks. The cycle can be thought to begin with the “Activators,” in the lower right side of image.
The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. – Einstein For several years now, I’ve been studying the intersection of technology, culture and communication, the impacts of social media, the relationship between creativity, innovation and design, and the potential of various futures. I’ve had this gnawing sensation at the edges of my mind that all these areas were held together by a common thread, but I couldn’t put my finger on the connection.
A Metathinking Manifesto « emergent by design
Blog : 6 questions with...Jonathan Harris
PopTech’s series, 6 questions with… gives us a chance to get into the heads of social innovators, technologists, artists, designers, and scientists to see what makes them tick. Artist, computer scientist and Internet anthropologist, Jonathan Harris (PopTech 2007) explores the intersection between human emotion, technology, and storytelling. He's known for insightful and inventive projects including We Feel Fine and Universe among many others .
Google Consciousness
Wired magazine is running a piece about a handful of Occupy Wall Street protestors who have begun to create a new social network . Personally I believe this is more than likely to be the beginning of the first ‘digital’ governance system than many of the ‘collective’ intelligence systems are starting to emerge. The same thinking applies to Twitter and other social networks — and the reasoning became clear last week, when a Massachusetts district attorney subpoenaed Twitter for information about the account @OccupyBoston and other accounts connected to the Boston movement. (To its credit, Twitter has a policy of giving users the opportunity to contest such orders when possible.)Votre navigateur n'est pas compatible avec certaines des fonctionnalités de Google Documents. Si vous rencontrez des problèmes, essayez Google Chrome . Ignorer
SEMANTIC FUNCTIONS THEORY The Language of Collective Intelligence
Autopoiesis & how hyper-connectivity is literally bringing the networks to life
When I started writing my book Living Networks in early 2002 I thought that it was important to demonstrate that the concept of ‘living networks’ was not just a metaphor, but a reality: we, together with the networks that connect us, are literally a new life form. To show this I drew on the literature on autopoiesis , which was proposed as a new way of understanding the nature of life, and wrote a lengthy introduction to the book. My editor, very rightly, thought it was the wrong way to begin the book, and the introduction never saw the light of day. This morning when someone mentioned living networks to me I remembered that this was a literal phrase that I had never explained, so here is the introduction, seen for the first time. We are indeed part of an emerging higher-order life form, and that is a wonderful thing… Introduction: How Connectivity is Bringing Our World to Life:8 Steps...(T.G)