Hacker Culture: The Key To Future Prosperity?

The Word "Hacker" April 2004 To the popular press, "hacker" means someone who breaks into computers. Among programmers it means a good programmer. To add to the confusion, the noun "hack" also has two senses. Believe it or not, the two senses of "hack" are also connected. Hacking predates computers. It is sometimes hard to explain to authorities why one would want to do such things. Those in authority tend to be annoyed by hackers' general attitude of disobedience. This attitude is sometimes affected. But even factoring in their annoying eccentricities, the disobedient attitude of hackers is a net win. For example, I suspect people in Hollywood are simply mystified by hackers' attitudes toward copyrights. Partly because some companies use mechanisms to prevent copying. It is by poking about inside current technology that hackers get ideas for the next generation. In 1977 there was no doubt some group within IBM developing what they expected to be the next generation of business computer.

Hyperlink Center for Collective Intelligence Handbook of Collective Intelligence Edited by Thomas W. Malone and Michael S. Bernstein Collective intelligence has existed at least as long as humans have, because families, armies, countries, and companies have all--at least sometimes--acted collectively in ways that seem intelligent. This book will introduce readers to many disciplinary perspectives on behavior that is both collective and intelligent. The goal of this edited volume is to help catalyze research in the field of collective intelligence by laying out a shared set of research challenges and methodological perspectives. The book is under contract with MIT Press, and we are making early draft chapters available here, in part, to solicit comments from a wide range of people via the Web. For each chapter, there is a “clean” version that is the most recent version released by the chapter author(s). Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8.

Collective intelligence Types of collective intelligence Collective intelligence is shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making. The term appears in sociobiology, political science and in context of mass peer review and crowdsourcing applications. It may involve consensus, social capital and formalisms such as voting systems, social media and other means of quantifying mass activity. Collective IQ is a measure of collective intelligence, although it is often used interchangeably with the term collective intelligence. Collective intelligence has also been attributed to bacteria[1] and animals.[2] Collective intelligence strongly contributes to the shift of knowledge and power from the individual to the collective. History[edit] Dimensions[edit] Howard Bloom has discussed mass behavior—collective behavior from the level of quarks to the level of bacterial, plant, animal, and human societies.

The Collective Intelligence Blog — Exploring new models of collaboration and network organization CI Resources - The Collective Intelligence Blog Here I share a compilation of contents related to Collective Intelligence. This space is updated with new resources as they become available: Augmented Collective Intelligence: Technology enables all of us to know more than any of us. Scoop.it page curated by Howard Rheingold.Blog de David Sánchez Bote: Explorando los territorios de la Inteligencia Colectiva, la digitalización y la empresa abierta.Blog of Collective Intelligence: Blog edited by George Pór to contribute to the dialogue between different perspectives on CI.Crowdsourcing.org: The industry website on crowdsourcingHomo Agilis (Collective Intelligence, Agility and Sustainability).