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?...
View ArticleProxy 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...
View ArticleThomas 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...
View ArticleMatthew 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....
View ArticleSensors, 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...
View ArticleSherry 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...
View ArticleAutonomous 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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