This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
Intelligence will become more and more collective; innovation and order will become more and more bottom-up.
When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts.
To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.
The Net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online.
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.
We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.
