Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World

Geoff Mulgan

Princeton University Press, 2018 - 272 páginas

A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This “bigger mind”—human and machine capabilities working together—has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? Gathering insights from diverse fields, including philosophy, computer science, and biology, Big Mind reveals how collective intelligence can guide corporations, governments, universities, and societies to make the most of human brains and digital technologies.

Geoff Mulgan explores how collective intelligence has to be consciously organized and orchestrated in order to harness its powers. He looks at recent experiments mobilizing millions of people to solve problems, and at groundbreaking technology like Google Maps and Dove satellites. He also considers why organizations full of smart people and machines can make foolish mistakes—from investment banks losing billions to intelligence agencies misjudging geopolitical events—and shows how to avoid them.

Highlighting differences between environments that stimulate intelligence and those that blunt it, Mulgan shows how human and machine intelligence could solve challenges in business, climate change, democracy, and public health. But for that to happen we’ll need radically new professions, institutions, and ways of thinking.

Informed by the latest work on data, web platforms, and artificial intelligence, Big Mind shows how collective intelligence could help us survive and thrive.

Índice

• Part I: 9
• Part II: 33
• The Infrastructures That Support Collective Intelligence: 48
• The Organizing Principles of Collective Intelligence: 60
• Learning Loops: 70
• Cognitive Economics and Triggered Hierarchies: 76
• The Autonomy of Intelligence: 90
• The Collective in Collective Intelligence: 99
• SelfSuspicion and Fighting the Enemies of Collective: 119
• MindEnhancing Meetings and Environments: 131
• How Cities and Governments Think: 145
• Economies and Firms: 161
• The University as Collective Intelligence: 174
• Democratic Assembly: 181
• How Does a Society Think and Create as a System?: 193
• Its for Everyone: 200
• Part IV: 215
• The Past and Future of Collective: 229
• Summary of the Argument: 237
• Index: 263

Sobre el autor

Geoff Mulgan is professor of collective intelligence, public policy, and social innovation at University College London, and a senior visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Ash Center. He was the founder of the think tank Demos and director of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit and head of policy under Tony Blair. His books include The Locust and the Bee (Princeton) and Good and Bad Power (Penguin).

Información bibliográfica

• Título: Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World
• Autor: Geoff Mulgan
• Edición: ilustrada, reimpresa
• Editor: Princeton University Press, 2018
• ISBN: 0691170797, 9780691170794
• N.º de páginas: 272 páginas