Collective mind insight

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When we begin to use knowledge to show us what we don't see, so that we may see a theme or an issue as a whole, a vision of a world on the brink of change results; and of a whole new order of things, which is ready to emerge. We call the emerging order of things the holotopia. The five insights are selected as sufficient to see the holotopia.

The Collective Mind, which is introduced here, is one of them.


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    Communication
  • Media
  • IT innovation
  • Public sphere
  • Public informing
  • Knowledge work


Seeing our collective mind

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By depicting our civilization as a Godzilla-like animal, this ideogram points to the main insight discussed here. The point is to see us all interconnected by modern IT as cells are connected in a human mind. We have gotten a new nervous system. How shall we use it?

The point here is that we've inherited the 'algorithm' – which we use to handle knowledge. In the small, and in the large. It has to be federation, not broadcasting. Federation leads to collective intelligence; broadcasting to collective madness.

The new information technology is a nervous system. It was conceived to make us 'collectively intelligent'. Yet we've used it to only re-implement the printing press way of working – broadcasting. And the same type of documents.

Federation leads to collective intelligence; broadcasting to collective madness!

How does this affect us personally? Nietzsche's can be quoted to point to a most interesting possibility: We may be operating in a cognitive and emotional spasm. Unable to comprehend and to act, and only reacting...


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