Collective intelligence is definitely one strategy to create an intelligence greater than what one single intelligent person can accomplish. In fact, all of society is one large intelligence that has accomplished a great deal - much more than one person. In fact, one could argue that the most intelligent thing that we are aware of is human society. Each of us is just a small subset of all the neurons at work, our brains networked via the low bandwidth connections of speech, writing, publication, the Internet, and so on.
One could argue that synapses are where the intelligence is. The synapses are the connections. Therefore, it stands to reason that building new synapses increases intelligence or increases specialized functionality of the intelligence. The Internet effectively increased human society's intelligence by adding a new class of synapses that operate fast and allow the growth of new specialized synapses.
Augmenting collective intelligence with new mechanisms which channel the flow of information in a productive manner are where real productivity can occur.
So anyway, I post all this here because I think the right people will read it here. Are there any people here from Orange County, California that would like to participate in a web-based project related to this stuff? PM me if so. I'll really need to engage in in person meetings, so Southern California is a must.
I lurk here a lot and I'm definitely a futurist type as most people here are.
