Holotopia: Collective Mind insight

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Scope

There can be no doubt that the printing press, and the improvement of communication and of the spreading of knowledge it enabled, contributed to the Enlightenment. Some historians even consider Gutenberg's invention as its main cause. What might have a similar effect today?

The Inernet has just recently been developed; and it has already changed our lives beyond recognition. Isn't that already the answer to our quest?

In effect, the network-interconnected interactive digital media have connected us all together in a similar way as the nervous system connects together the cells in an organism. We look at the process which we use, as cells, to process the knowledge together. How does our collective mind work?

Insight

KFvision.jpeg Our civilization is like an overgrown organism, so poorly coordinated that it presents a danger to its environment, and to itself. It has recently acquired a nervous system, which could help its organs coordinate their action; but its cells have not yet learned how to use it.

Without thinking, we've adopted broadcasting (which suited the old technology) to be the way. But broadcasting leads to collective insanity—not to collective intelligence, as it was intended.


Federation

Knowledge Work Has a Flat Tire, and other evangelizing prototypes.

Bush–Engelbart–Postman


Action

Develop a collective mind that federates knowledge. Where every cell gets the data it needs to be able to operate on. Develop a functioning collective mind.

Generally—the solution is systemic innovation in knowledge work; handling information in ways that make systems more whole. A basic point here is that this is a natural first step in systemic innovation—we first need suitable light, before we can see what else needs to be done.