Doug Engelbart, father of the mouse and human computer interaction, tells InnovationBeat about how collective IQ will be needed to save the world.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Doug Engelbart: "Collective IQ Can Save Us"
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it is a great podcast... Collective IQ concept is definitely worth exploring... we need to be careful that it does not get miss understood.
Congratulations on the blog as well. Violeta
Collective IQ is intrinsic to the Internet and few people are as aware of this as Doug. His pessimism about the misuses of the Internet is well founded, and these misuses taint some of the exchanges we see in blogs/ comments, but he seems to be an idealist who lives in hope rather than despair.
In context, we need an 'Innernet' (as opposed to 'the Internet') that erects barriers to entry and membership, that can avoid the excesses seen today. Yes, this would be perceived as elitist, but humans only value what they pay for or qualify to use, and putting a price on exclusivity would be a powerful force in raising collective IQ.
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