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Nov 14, 2006
"Truth is not to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction." --Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
The Wisdom of Crowdsourcing
Remember when outsourcing was the buzzword? Well, the new concept is “crowdsourcing:” everyday people using their spare cycles to create content, solve problems, even do corporate R & D. Just as distributed computing projects like UC Berkeley’s SETI@home have tapped the unused processing power of millions of individual computers, so distributed labor networks are using the Internet to leverage the spare processing power of millions of human brains. And technological advances in everything from product design software to digital video cameras are breaking down the cost barriers that once separated amateurs from professionals. This Wired Magazine article takes an insightful look into everything from viral videos to a 90,000-strong network of scientists solving problems with which corporations struggle.
BE THE CHANGE
Explore the wisdom of the collective: ask a group of friends, by email or in person, a question that you would benefit from having multiple perspectives on.
