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July 22, 2004

Art Mobs

Art Mobs: Can an online crowd create a poem, a novel, or a painting? Or, "Just how inventive can an anonymous group of people be?" You might want to check this one out. Clive Thompson looks at James Surowiecki’s new book, "The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations". Surowiecki argues that "under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them."

You might also want to check out an earlier book, Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold. There's a weblog (started in '02, I think) on the site.

Posted by newradio at July 22, 2004 11:21 AM

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