Computing pioneer and collective intelligence architect Doug Engelbart (pictured left as a Second Life avatar) will be on Democracy Island tonight (Friday, January 20th) from 7:30-9:30 PM PST. Come on out. [If you need help getting into Second Life, please email me at jerrypaffendorf[at]accelerating[dot]org. SL accounts are free.]
Doug will be streamed in live via video from the Bay Area Future Salon in Palo Alto, CA. Their latest announcement from host Mark Finnern reads:
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Harry Max, Doug Engelbart and I sat together yesterday to talk about how we can create the best Collective IQ Future Salon possible. It is happening this Friday the 20th.
We came up with the following. To get you into the right mindset we will start out the evening in small groups of up to 6 people that tackle the following questions:
•What collective capability need to be improved.
•What things would you like to improve electronically with other people that you can't do currently?
•What can we do to collectively get better at understanding and solving complex problems?
•How do we get smarter as a group?
•What makes a group of people look dumber(smarter) than they are?
This is happening form 6:30 to 7:20 every 20 minutes or so we rearrange the groups. The suggestions are collected and Doug will try to tailor his talk to a couple of these suggestions. (We derived this a bit from the Brain Jams and Christopher Allen's Weave
suggestion)
This is going to be really interesting. It will be broadcast not only to the world, but also into Second Life...
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See Democracy Island initiator and New York Law School Professor Beth Noveck's recent paper, A Democracy of Groups, which has been compared in scope to Doug's classic Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework from 1962. Read on below the fold for side-by-side abstracts of the two papers, with Doug's focus on how individuals might come to better leverage the collective and Beth cutting straight to groups collaborating via the technologies Doug was imagining over 40 years ago.
Abstract for Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) by Doug Engelbart:
This is an initial summary report of a project taking a new and systematic approach to improving the intellectual effectiveness of the individual human being. A detailed conceptual framework explores the nature of the system composed of the individual and the tools, concepts, and methods that match his basic capabilities to his problems. One of the tools that shows the greatest immediate promise is the computer, when it can be harnessed for direct on-line assistance, integrated with new concepts and methods.
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Abstract for A Democracy of Groups (2005) by Beth Noveck:
In groups people can accomplish what they cannot do alone. Now new visual and social technologies are making it possible for people to make decisions and solve complex problems collectively. These technologies are enabling groups not only to create community but also to wield power and create rules to govern their own affairs. Electronic democracy theorists have either focused on the individual and the state, disregarding the collaborative nature of public life, or they remain wedded to outdated and unrealistic conceptions of deliberation. This article makes two central claims. First, technology will enable more effective forms of collective action. This is particularly so of the emerging tools for "collective visualization" which will profoundly reshape the ability of people to make decisions, own and dispose of assets, organize, protest, deliberate, dissent and resolve disputes together. From this argument derives a second, normative claim. We should explore ways to structure the law to defer political and legal decision–making downward to decentralized group–based decision–making. This argument about groups expands upon previous theories of law that recognize a center of power independent of central government: namely, the corporation. If we take seriously the potential impact of technology on collective action, we ought to think about what it means to give groups body as well as soul — to "incorporate" them. This paper rejects the anti–group arguments of Sunstein, Posner and Netanel and argues for the potential to realize legitimate self–governance at a "lower" and more democratic level. The law has a central role to play in empowering active citizens to take part in this new form of democracy.
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