Re: How Not To Design A Mindful Society

Re: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ai.conceptual-graphs/2745

Everybody knows that all of the following are true:

1. Two heads are better than one.
2. Many hands make light work.
3. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
4. Fifty thousand hedge-fund investors can be wrong.

Obviously, the "architecture" part of our social-technical architectures
makes a big difference to the success of the result -- and yet there is
an overwhelming tendency among the celebrants of "social media systems"
today to throw up their hands and leave all that to the "invisible hand"
of the markup place.  And so the intelligence that it takes to make the
collective one wit more intelligent than the glob (greatest lower bound)
of its elemental intelligences goes missing from the linkage of the net.

Jon Awbrey

CC: Arisbe, Cybernetics, Inquiry

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