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he helped start a research group called MIDAS, which stood for Mining Data at Stanford.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
do not think it too remote that we may come to regard the Earth, as some have suggested, as one organism, of which mankind is a functional part—the mind, perhaps.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
When I heard a bit about the site’s method of extracting such good results—it relied on sort of a web-based democracy—I
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Rainbows End: A Novel with One Foot in the Future
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The Philosopher-Builder
ideas of what would coalesce into complexity theory later in the twentieth century, highlighted that the actions of individual members could generate information that was highly valuable to the entire crowd.
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
That’s when Adam realizes: Humankind is deeply ill. The species won’t last long. It was an aberrant experiment. Soon the world will be returned to the healthy intelligences, the collective ones. Colonies and hives.