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What was surprising, new, or unexpected was the conceptual framework of collective intelligence. Hence Bees. The idea of the hive, but then this is also the same concept mixed into a neural network concept. The potential outcomes CI (Collective Intelligence) games, could be a whole new collaborative framework. In some ways this is happening now. The Internet is slowly tearing down the linear and regularly scheduled world of the industrial era. Twitter is immediacy that supersedes the time frame of news at 11:00. Perhaps it is vanity and hubris also. The electronic social networks become self promoting MEs, screaming into the network. How are stories worked into this new CI world? In an abstract since stories are models for behavioral interaction. Stories are snippets of social code. CI ... creating virtual collective models of the world, or alternate world ... these can be fantastic tool of analysis. Games and modeling are bedfellows. The attempt to make predictive models of the world

I remember years ago working with Northwestern Mutual Life on their first web page deployment. They developed a simple "game" which would lead the play through a set of question and then determine the players life expectancy. It was a perfect game for a life insurance company, since it was driven by actuarial tables. One of the most interesting aspects of the Internet is the capability to create ad hoc collectives in order to create computer programs, literature and art. The very underlying structure of the Internet, that is the protocols that make it all work, are the product of collaborative work perform by the Internet Engineering Task Force. Take the IETF as an example of a collective endeavor. The IETF develops standards through working groups. The working groups do most of their discussion via e-mail discussion groups. The IETF befuddled traditional standards organizations such as the venerable IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the ISO (Inte

Peer reviewed journals are harder to access than free studies produced by political slanted "think tanks." Citizens in democratic-republics are making globally significant decisions based incomplete information. The world is faced with an escalating crises fueled by growth. We all live on a single planet, and what we do has an incremental effect on our fellow inhabitants. Of all the nations of the world, it is Americans who leave the largest footprint on this planet. Per capita we consume more resources than any other peoples on earth. If we as a species are to enjoy a prosperous future, we must alter our behavior in order to make civilization sustainable. For consumption addicted Americans a shift to sustainability is challenging. Massive wealth has been made by individuals and corporations as a result of America's consumer appetite. Many peoples' short-term self interest stand in conflict with long term-self interest of the species. A Conspiracy of Convenience "

The English 202 class was required to put together two minute videos regarding copyright and media. A survey of the class show a propensity for concern over downloading and favoritism toward the Scrabulous story. My observations of the videos is somewhat obscured by my own desire to compare content and style. Of videos I reviewed, Mike Stiel's video seemed the most polished and had the most impact on me. Fast paced does not make clarity. Wordiness does not make content clear or cogent. Clarity is illusive. I learned today that making a video takes thought and planning. New media creates challenges the sometimes impair or obstruct the creative process. What made me proud of my own work is that people got it.

The topic - how copyright empirical decision making in a democratic-republic. In a democratic-republic it is essential that the population is well informed and capable of debating technological and social issues. Often the best and most well informed source materials for a technological and social debate comes from academic research. Academic research is distributed in peered reviewed journals and publications. Most of the peer-reviewed studies encumber research papers with copyrights and charge for the redistribution of their content. Political organizations, most dramatically on the conservative and libertarian end of the American political spectrum, have organized corporate and special interest funded think tanks to produce pseudo academic works to influence and manipulate political opinion. The "market of ideas" is being flooded with free information produced by politicized think tanks; while the most rigorously researched and empirically reasoned works are locked away in