Collective intelligence, by pierre levy michael nielsen. Collective intelligence by pierre levy, paperback barnes. One of the things i have had trouble explaining when defining the concept of collective intelligence is the preceding headline. If you shift your gaze, smile, and say come join us. Levys book is important because it advocates an alternative future for the net. Mankinds emerging world in cyberspace new ed by levy, pierre isbn. Various thoughts and papers in french and english couronnement. More from pierre levy s book collective intelligence. That is, there are situations that can lead to collective intelligence ci in which individuals do not interact directly or are even. Collective intelligence often entails an interactive, participatory rather than a passive media culture, where users are engaging actively with each other and the material.
It is the first javabased book to emphasize the underlying algorithms and technical implementation of vital data gathering and mining techniques like analyzing trends, discovering relationships, and making predictions. Pierre is also the first philosopher to have developed the notion of collective intelligence supported by the. It was cited in henry jenkinss book, fans, bloggers and gamers. At once a profound historical analysis of the development of human culture and a blueprint for the future, collective intelligence is a visionary. Rejecting technological or economic determinism, levy sees. His many books include becoming virtual 1998 and collective intelligence 1999. This is the model which pierre levy describes in his book, collective intelligence. It is preferable to overemphasise the role of the gift economy within cyberspace than to ignore it altogether. I came across collective intelligence by pierre levy in my research for the patron 2. He introduced the collective intelligence concept in his 1994 book lintelligence collective. This is a long list with interesting pointers to articles, thinkers and examples.
The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of 10 percent a month. As the people in the group change, the game is modified. Pierre levy shows how the unfettered exchange of ideas in cyberspace has the potential to liberate us from the social and political hierarchies that have stood in the way of mankinds advancement. One example of collective intelligence is the survivor spoiler sites that fans developed around the popular television show. This is an english excerpt of my book collective intelligence published in french in 1994. However, in the age of digital innovation, artificial intelligence and increasing interconnectivity, a new frontier in. Pierre levy believes, however, that rather than creating a society where machines rule man, the technology of cyberspace will have a humanizing influence on us, and foster the emergence of a collective intelligence a meeting of minds on the internet. Pierre levy, collective intelligence, excerpt from introduction to pierre levy, collective intelli gence cambridge, ma. One reason the book is notable is that, so far as i know, it was the first to really develop the term collective intelligence. Despite these faults, levys book is still a useful corrective to the freemarket orthodoxy coming out of the west coast. Posts about collective intelligence written by pierre levy. Pierre levy believes that rather than creating a society where machines rule man, the technology of cyberspace will have a humanizing influence on us, and foster the emergence of a collective intelligencea meeting of minds on the internetthat will validate the contributions of the individual.
Pour une anthropologie du cyberspace collective intelligence. The collective intelligence of a crowd is larger than the sum of individual intelligence of the contributors levy, 2006. The number of travelers along the information superhighway i. Although the book was written in 1997, well before the advent of social media, the theory is solid and completely applicable to the discussion of web 2. An ethics of collective intelligence pierre levys blog. A collective intelligence is still something to be amazed at, since technologies multiply rapidly and it is impossible to follow such advances in. The wisdom of crowds by james surowiecki, swarm intelligence. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society. Collective intelligence is the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher order complexity and harmony, through such innovation mechanisms as variationfeedbackselection, differentiationintegrationtransformation, and competitioncooperationcoopetition. Collective intelligence risk group listen to podcast.
Collective intelligence in collective intelligence,pierre levy offers a compelling vision of the new knowledge space, or what he calls the cosmopedia, that might emerge as citizens more fully realize the potentials of the new media environment. Anthropologist, historian, sociologist, and philosopher, levy writes with a depth of. Collective intelligence in action is a handson guidebook for implementing collective intelligence concepts using java. Mankinds emerging world in cyberspace, published in french in 1994 english translation in 1999, he describes a kind of collective intelligence that extends everywhere and is constantly evaluated and coordinated in real time, a collective human. Levys account stresses the affirmative value placed on diversity in such a culture. Collective intelligence, the future of internet and the. Later george siemens, in his article collective intelligence. There is an open debate on the net about connective intelligence in contraposition to collective intelligence. Integral mindfulness, collective intelligence, and. Mankinds emerging world in cyberspace helix books pierre levy, robert bononno on. Collective intelligence, the book in french, that pierre levy wrote before the existence of the worldwide web, when only the internet existed, its a philosophical vision of the future, a philosophical vision of what could be a global civilization based on the digital and the general interconnection of all the computers. The result is this extraordinary document, a perfectly lucid and accessible description of cyberspacefrom infrastructure to practical applicationsalong with. Collective intelligence media technology and culture change.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Levy was writing in the mid1990s, and others had, of course, both used the term before, and also developed related notions. Pierre levy, french philosopher and leading expert on collective intelligence, is on a similar mission. Collective intelligence combines elements of sociobiology, psychology, economics and computer science. Anthropologist, historian, sociologist, and philosopher, levy writes with a depth of scholarship and imaginative insight rare among media critics. Ideas surrounding the benefits of collective intelligence originate from aristotle but it was not until recent years that extensive research has been conducted in this area. Collective intelligence guide books acm digital library. Pierre levy believes that rather than creating a society where machines rule man, the technology of cyberspace will have a humanizing influence on us, and foster the emergence of a collective intelligence a meeting of minds on the internetthat will validate the contributions of the individual. Pierre levy believes, however, that rather than creating a society where machines rule man, the technology of cyberspace will have a humanizing influence on us, and foster the emergence of a collective intelligence a meeting of minds on the internet that will validate the contributions of the individual. Pierre levy archives the collective intelligence blog. While driven by, arguably, a similar set of goals, his approach takes a step further.
More from pierre levys book collective intelligence. Foi incentivado e treinado por michel serres e cornelius castoriadis a ser um pesquisador. Concluding note about the shared mindfulness, collective intelligence, and collective sentience of you and me the first outline of this essay was. Pierre levy is a philosopher and a pioneer in the study of the impact of the internet on human knowledge and culture. While the very nature of the human mind and the science of individual human intelligence is difficult to understand, there is an intense effort going on to build collective human intelligence powered by connected computers and machine intelligence. The professor from the communication department of the university of ottawa proposed that, though its impossible for us to be experts in everything, we can be experts in a. Collective intelligence is the phenomenon that emerges when large pools of individuals share, collaborate, and compete thus formulating intelligence that was unattainable by individuals.
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