With over a month’s time since the conclusion of the 2009 Ars Electronica Symposium on Cloud Intelligence we can now look back at the day’s discussions – both online and in Linz – and examine what conclusions were reached, and what points of contention remain. All of the talk[...]
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October 19th, 2009 - 3:03 pm § in 80plus1, Ars Electronica, Cloud Computing, Collective Intelligence
Summary of Cloud Intelligence Symposium
October 17th, 2009 - 11:41 am § in Collective Intelligence, Environmentalism
[Video] Juliana Rotich: The Cloud as a Hub for Environmental Change
Juliana Rotich, a Kenyan blogger and environmentalist, ends the afternoon of case studies by looking at how African activists are using “the cloud as a hub for environmental change.” While most North Americans learn about environmental degradation on the news, she says, for Africans it i[...]
October 17th, 2009 - 11:12 am § in Collective Intelligence
[Video] TMS Ruge: Diaspora and the Cloud
Teddy Ruge is a Ugandan-born photographer and activist now living in Texas, and the co-founder of Project Diaspora, which aims to mobilize the African diaspora in the social, economic, and cultural development of the African continent. Ruge says that Project Diaspora’s specific focus is to use[...]
September 13th, 2009 - 10:52 am § in Collective Intelligence
[Video] Roundtable 1
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[Video] Anders Sandberg: Cloud Superintelligence
Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. Sandberg begins by observing that, collectively, Austria has around 821,000,000 IQ points, but that most contemporary research ignores the potential of group cognition and rather focuses on business-related scenarios of how[...]
September 12th, 2009 - 12:46 pm § in Cloud Computing, Collective Intelligence
[Video] David Sasaki: Introduction to Cloud Intelligence
David Sasaki began the day with an introduction to the concept of “cloud intelligence.” He argued that we are entering the third stage of computing after the mainstream and then personal computer; that cloud-based tools, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s many products, have [...]
The 81st Day
Next weeks Ars Electronica Symposium will differ a bit from past years. The symposium also marks the 81st and final day of 80+1: A Journey Around the World. 80+1 Basecamp For 80 days the world has come to Linz. Inspired by Jules Verne’s epic 19th century journey “Around the World in 80 Days”,[...]
August 28th, 2009 - 7:07 pm § in Collective Intelligence, History
A Brief History of Collective Intelligence
In many ways the topic of “Cloud Intelligence” is really just a 2009 adaptation of a concept that has existed for far longer than computers themselves, “collective intelligence.” (MIT even has a Center for Collective Intelligence.) In Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan, published[...]