@RAM@ [http://mfile.akamai.com/12800/rm/mitworld.download.akamai.com/12800/mitw-comm-forum-collective-intel-malone-pentland-04oct2007-220k.ram] ++++''' The first question for collective intelligence maybe, '''++++,, ++++'''how can we avoid collective idiocy and break even? '''++++ Pentland David Thorburn, Director, Communications Forum, introduces the session and Thomas Malone, Alex (Sandy Pentland), and Karim Lakhani. (NB: The video starts with Thorburn in progress.) He asks Malone to start with an overview of the subject of collective intelligence. At 5:09, Malone begins. (NB: Malone’s audio is low until 6:30.) At 13:04, Pentland begins. At 25:07, Karim R. Lakhani begins. At 35:24, Malone describes projects at the Center for Collective Intelligence. At 42:03, Thorburn admits to skepticism in reaction to the “utopian discourse” surrounding collective intelligence and asks panelists to ponder limitations to the “collective intelligence tendency.” At 52:21, Thorburn asks a question that’s “half intellectually unfriendly.” He wonders, “Is the best we can hope for from collective intelligence that we can sell more T-shirts in creative ways? What about applications in realms of culture and human behavior that do not involve profit and loss?” At 53:30, Malone responds. At 1:01:11, Thorburn opens the session to audience Q&A. Questions include: Pentland’s “sociometric badge” and how it impacts interactions; how to train people to do collective work; the connection between chaos and collective intelligence; how to prevent mass stupidity, and concerns about the evolution of a surveillance culture; the need for face to face contact in communities to develop trust; the role of motivation in projects of collective intelligence; the impact of collective intelligence on individual intelligence; how to prevent people from gaming the system; can a group have an artistic vision or is that the property of a single artist. [http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/494/ source] ---- *Also see **[http://deoxy.org/wiki/CognitiveSynergy CognitiveSynergy]