"Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.” - Douglas Adams
Exhibiting collective intelligence is not just limited to human beings, but instances can be found across the entire living species.
Ants operating as a colony do remarkable things, when compared to the individual ant, which is not very bright.
Honey Bees share honey with each other, using a complex ceremony called the Waggle Dance.
Yet, humankind has been able to achieve astounding feats, not possible by other Species, using a meta tool, namely language.
Printing Press, which is a celebration of humankind's collective intelligence, made us all Readers. Reading, helps us think in a directed fashion, literally saving us thousand years of thinking.
The Web, made us all Writers. Yet, not all of us can instantly become writers, without Motivation and Training. So, in order to achieve the level of impact, that we achieved with the Printing Press, we need to Connect the Human Intelligence with the Artificial Intelligence in an optimal fashion.
“Connected Intelligence is about creating a spontaneous network of individual intelligence that achieves a common purpose, without the need for a planned orchestration.” - Vasu
Reading can be considered directed thinking.... Imagine, how much advancement, humankind would achieve by directing sense-making.
A manifestation of such a directed sense-making, is the ScribbleBee, which is an e-book system, that adapts itself, based on the reader's interest and comprehension.
