Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace [Hardcover]

Tom Atlee (Author), Yochai Benkler (Author), Thomas Homer-Dixon (Author), Pierre Levy (Author), Thomas Malone (Author), Rt Hon Paul Martin (Author), Hassan Masum (Author), Robert Steele (Author), Mark Tovey (Editor), Six-Penny Graphics (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 19, 2008

The era of collective intelligence has begun in earnest. While others have written about the wisdom of crowds, an army of Davids, and smart mobs, this collection of essays for the first time brings together fifty-five pioneers in the emerging discipline of collective intelligence. They provide a base of tools for connecting people, producing high-functioning teams, collaborating at multiple scales, and encouraging effective peer-production. Emerging models are explored for digital deliberative democracy, self-governance, legislative transparency, true-cost accounting, and the ethical use of open sources and methods. Collective Intelligence is the first of a series of six books, which will also include volumes on Peace Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Gift Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, and Global Intelligence.

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About the Author

The contributors to this volume include Steve Arnold, Tom Atlee, Yochai Benkler, Howard Bloom, Juanita Brown, James Duncan, Doug Engelbart, Jock Gill, Jerome Glenn, Nancy Gloch-Gruenich, Theodore Gordon, Craig Hamilton, Francis Heylighen, Simon Hill, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Keith Hopper, David Isaacs, Mister Jalopy, Norman Johnson, Peter+Trudy Johnson-Lenz, John Kesler, Lion Kimbro, Mark Klein, Bruce LaDuke, Jaron Lanier, Michael Lenczner, Pierre Levy, Jazon Liskiewiez, Derek Lomas, Thomas Malone, Rt. Hon. Paul Martin, the National Capital Institute (Pawl Hawkin, Peggy Duvette, and many others), Jean-Francois Noubel, George Por, Jon Ramer, Mitch Ratcliff, Howard Rheingold, Marko Rodriguez, Sara Nora Ross, G. Parker Rossman, Jim Rough, Karl Schroeder, Douglas Schuler, Carole and David Schwinn, Nova Spivak, Marc Stamos, Robert Steele, Alex Steffen, Philip Torrone, Mark Tovey, Jennifer Watkins, David Weinberger, and Claire Zammit. The following organizations, among others, are represented in this volume: ARINA, Arnold IT, Inc.; Bootstrap.org; BuzzLogic; Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence, FRSC; Carleton University, Institute of Cognitive Science; Center for Wise Democracy; Co-Intelligence Institute; Collective-Intellignece.US; Discover Magazine; Earth Intelligence Network; Evergreen State College, Public Sphere Project; Free University of Brussels; Future of Learning Pioneers; Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for the Internet and Society; HIGHEREdge.org; HyperAdvance.com; IngeniusOnline; Johnson-Lenz.com; KeithHopper.com; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Maker s Bill of Rights; Marketingisland; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Collective Intelligence; McLaughlin-Rotman Center for Global Health; Montreal Community Wi-Fi; Natural Capital Institute; Nexus for Change, The Change Handbook; OSS.Net, Inc.; Penfield Gill, Inc.; RadarNetworks; Reconfigure.org; Referentia Systems; Tetriad; The Interra Project; The Transitioner; United Nations Millenium Project; Universiteit van Amsterdam; University of California at Berkeley; University of California at San Diego, Social Movement Laboratory; Web 3.0; Whole Earth Review; World Café Community; World Index of Environmental and Social Responsibility; Worldchanging.com.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 648 pages
• Publisher: Earth Intelligence Network; 1st edition (March 19, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097156616X
• ISBN-13: 978-0971566163
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #686,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Available Free Online, Hard-Copy 12 April 2008, March 20, 2008

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Robert D. Steele (Oakton, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (Hardcover)

This book is the first of a series of books from the Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3 Public Charity incorporated in Virginia. As with all our books, it is available free online for inspection, digital search, and Creative Commons re-use at no cost.

We are of course very proud of the hard-copy and of being able to offer it on Amazon, and the 55 contributors, all volunteers, hope you will buy a hard-copy both for its ease of hand-eye coordination and exploitation, and to support our work in creating public intelligence in the public interest.

Here are ten other books I as the publisher personally admire, that lend credence to our proposition, hardly original in concept but uniquely documented in this book, that We the People are now ready to self-govern at the zip code and line item level.

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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All
Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created and how it will change our lives
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Morning of the Collective Mind, July 7, 2008

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Ralph H. Peters (Washington, D.C. area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (Hardcover)

This is a wonderfully stimulating collection of offerings on the interplay between human collectives and the "information age." Inevitably, some insights are more gripping than others--but each essay by the more than fifty futurists (for want of a better term) engaged in this effort is worth reading. While we may think we're frightfully clever and sophisticated when it comes to our "information age," it struck this reader that, in relation to information exploitation, we're at a point equivalent to the mid-seventeenth century in the physical sciences: We've gotten some of the basic parameters figured out, but haven't yet begun to understand their myriad applications. This volume is stimulating, useful, sometimes brilliant, and always worth turning over the page. Very highly recommended for those involved in intelligence, government or the media--as well as for citizens concerned about our collective future. Brain food for grown-ups.