Choice is at the center of making change. We all intuitively know we have to change the way our species lives.  That means making changes to the way we live our own lives. This is getting very personal. And if you are like me – uncomfortable. I go on and on about collaborative intelligence and […]

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Tripped over this in ‘After God’ by Professor Mark C. Taylor. In terms of collaborative intelligence the value of this small piece is self-evident. The most pressing dangers we currently face result from the conflict of competing absolutisms that divide the world between oppositions that can never be mediated. Four governing principles should thus guide […]

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Advances in robotics are showing us a future where we can collaborate via technology – experts in one country helping their colleagues in other parts of the world conduct complex surgical procedures. Watch this amazing demonstration. The big question for me is – will they patent this with tight protection or open the knowledge up […]

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‘Darwinomics’ is a term apparently invented by the script-writers of the ‘West-Wing’ TV show. Immediately I heard the term I thought of the scramble for money at the expense (pardon the pun) of everything else. It turns out that Darwinomics doesn’t have an official definition but was used in such a way as to suggest […]

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Howard Rheingold agrees with me (well that’s a relief) competition is over-rated. Social Darwinism– the struggle to the top of the pile is not the only thing going on in natural (including human) systems. You only have to scratch the surface of ecologies in nature to find deep levels of cooperation. If it is not […]

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Developing collaborative intelligence (CQ) is about developing our ability to work together. Whether it is a business team or a community or even nations, creating new way to increase our collaborative capacity will make life easier for everyone. For example the videos of groups of people singing the national anthems of other nations makes a […]

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‘We live in a era of intense conflict and massive institutional failures, a time of painful endings and of hopeful beginnings. It is a time that feels as if something profound is shifting and dying while something else, as the playwright and Czech president, Vaclav Havel, put it, wants to be born: “I think there […]

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OK the social Darwinists have had their day I think. The bloody struggle to the top of the social pile was based on some assumptions about human nature. These assumptions are proving to be only a small part of the story of human progress. In an essay entitled ‘The Nueroeconomics of Trust’ Paul Zak demonstrates […]

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‘Several researchers testing bacterial adaptivity have tormented colonies with problems so overwhelming that they dwarf any individual bacterium’s solo computational powers. For example, experimenters have taken a community of the intestine-dwelling bacteria Escherichia coli away from the cuisine it normally eats and offered it only salicin – a pain-reliever squeezed from the bark of willow […]

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