Towards a Global Brain: techniques to support
the emergence of collective intelligence on the Net
Towards a Global Brain: techniques to support
the emergence of collective intelligence on the Net
This presentation will review a number of concepts and methods that can
help us to design a distributed information system with emerging
intelligence, i.e. a system that can solve more problems than the sum of
problems solved by its human and electronic subsystems. These conceptual
tools include: associative networks, learning webs, spreading activation,
semantic link typing, data mining, software agents, work flow and shared
workspaces. The metaphor that helps us to integrate these disparate
techniques is the "global brain": a view of web links and communication
channels as neurons in the collective nervous system of humanity. Studying
the evolution and self-organization of the human brain may then help us to
understand, control and design the emergence of an intelligent net.