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Four dimensions of crowdfunding

JOBS Act or not, crowdfunding platforms and opportunities are evolving rapidly. How might we better understand the crowdfunding ecosystem — what’s out there, what’s promised, and what might be missing?...

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Proxy voting platforms for liquid democracy

Citizen deliberative councils, participatory budgeting, the Occupy movement’s consensus decision making: These are all experiments in more participatory forms of democracy. Technologies can support...

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Thomas Malone: Patterns of collective intelligence

Thomas Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, talks about their research in an Edge video: “How can people and computers be connected so that — collectively — they act more...

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Matthew Salganik: Wiki surveys

“As you can see, this is basically kitten war for ideas,” said Princeton sociologist Matthew Salganik in introducing the wiki survey tool All Our Ideas at the Collective Intelligence 2012 conference....

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Sensors, netness, and the public good

Scenarios of a very near future: If Fido and Rover jump the backyard fence, their collars send off an SMS message. When motion is detected around the house, photos are snapped and saved to Dropbox. If...

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Sherry Turkle: AAAS talk on sociable robotics

The theme of this year’s American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting is the “unreasonable effectiveness” of science. Friday’s plenary talk was by MIT social scientist and...

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Autonomous vehicles: policies and ethics

Robin Chase on policies to ensure that autonomous vehicles serve the public good (“Will a World of Driverless Cars Be Heaven or Hell?”): So policy makers, taxpayers, road warriors, city lovers: Which...

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