conformity enforcers

Meshworking Evolutionary Intelligences for the HUMAN HIVE

By Marilyn Hamilton|2017-04-07T02:57:34+00:00February 21st, 2012|Categories: C. Collective Intelligences, city, E. Evolutionary Intelligences, Lifecycle|Tags: 100 million years, conformity enforcers, diversity generators, honey bees, howard bloom, human hive, inner judges, intergroup tournaments, resilience, resource allocators, roles, sustainability|5 Comments

This blog is the fourth prologue for a keynote at the FreshOutlook Feb. 27, 2012 Building SustainABLE Communities Conference. An Integral City is a complex adaptive human system that concentrates habitat for humans like a bee hive does for bees. Let me tell you about why I am attracted to the story of the human [...]

City Leaders Amplify Weak Signals, Quicken Collective Intelligence

New research shows the power of the web to spread diversity and infect conformity by the provocation of weak signals. Farhad Manjoo from Slate reconsiders his(?) book True Enough's proposition that the web was narrowing networkers' worlds to the news/info selections that they chose. Now Facebook has released a study with an interesting design (based on millions [...]