Collective Intelligence Will Enable the Power of Many
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The science fiction writer William Gibson once astutely observed, “The future has already arrived; it’s just not evenly distributed.” With rapid developments in digital connectivity, such as blockchain, we are seeing clear signs that, sometime in the foreseeable future, the peer-to-peer network could supplant the top-down hierarchy as the dominant form of social organization. However, despite the increasing evidence of new forms of distributed connectivity, these signs remain hidden in plain sight. Although we use our connected iPhones to do Google searches as we step into an Uber car on our way to close a deal we made on eBay, we are in many ways oblivious as to just how radically the world is changing around us. Our tools may be networked and digital, but the world we carry around inside our heads is still very hierarchical and linear. It’s an unsustainable situation, and we know how this ends: The future always wins, and it’s just a matter of time before the future will become very evenly distributed.
Collective Intelligence Will Enable the Power of Many
Collective Intelligence Will Enable the Power…
Collective Intelligence Will Enable the Power of Many
The science fiction writer William Gibson once astutely observed, “The future has already arrived; it’s just not evenly distributed.” With rapid developments in digital connectivity, such as blockchain, we are seeing clear signs that, sometime in the foreseeable future, the peer-to-peer network could supplant the top-down hierarchy as the dominant form of social organization. However, despite the increasing evidence of new forms of distributed connectivity, these signs remain hidden in plain sight. Although we use our connected iPhones to do Google searches as we step into an Uber car on our way to close a deal we made on eBay, we are in many ways oblivious as to just how radically the world is changing around us. Our tools may be networked and digital, but the world we carry around inside our heads is still very hierarchical and linear. It’s an unsustainable situation, and we know how this ends: The future always wins, and it’s just a matter of time before the future will become very evenly distributed.