Swarm intelligence is a way to augment - not replace - our humanity
Interesting post here on swarm intelligence, but there's a danger in applying this concept in a disempowering way. Fundamentally, this is an empowering technological advancement that can help people cope with huge volume information in our lives, and in most cases I believe it's best used to augment --and not replace -- our humanity. I see the core concept in swarm intelligence as pervasive state awareness -- as such, there's tremendous opportunities to facilitate better, faster decisions with things like state machines. That logic can happen either at the edge or not -- depending on constraints and objectives. But rarely if ever should people be removed from the equation. Instead, the better path is to present people with recommendations that they can act on in such a manner that they can be presented with insights, and then act on those insights in a single flow of activity.
Thanks to the Trucking Nerd for the link.
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- Anonymous
November 24, 2007
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