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February 20, 2008
Thinking About the Anti-Wisdom of Crowds
Spending an inordinate amount of time lately thinking about collective intelligence, the anti-wisdom of crowds, geographic obesity (and shareholding) clusters, etc. It's all in preparation for CI Foo Camp up at the Google campus this Friday/Saturday.
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CI is indeed an interesting topic, but the more you or I or anyone else thinks about it, the more it occurs to me that individuals are the true innovators. We then share an "individual" innovation--invariably built upon someone else's preconceived findings--with other's that quickly add, reject, modify, embrace---voila...collective output.