This video contained both brief speeches and a panel discussion about the topics of collaboration and collective intelligence. The persons speaking included a cultural anthropologist who studies media usage of young people in America and Japan, a worker at Linden Lab, known for it's creation of an online 3D virtual reality collaboration tool called "2nd Life," and a professor at the University of New York at Buffalo and creator of the Institute of Distributed Creativity. The overall discussion evolved around defining collective intelligence as being a group of people forming together to make decisions.
The one point that caught my attention the most was the "amateur expert collision" that was brought up by Cory Ondrejka. This is the idea that because of the massive advancement in technology like the internet, people that were once considered "amateurs" are now starting to populating the same arenas where professionals once dominated. The point was made that amateur doesn't mean incompetent, it means un-credentialed. The professionals in the world have things like degrees, certificates, and lingo that help create a barrier between them and the amateurs. The advancement and availability of information technology has allowed these amateurs to gain professional insights and are closer to comparing their knowledge with professionals. This portion of the discussion was the most interesting.
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