Don is one of the world's leading authorities on innovation, media, and the economic and social impact of technology and advises business and government leaders around the world. In 2011 Don was named one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. He has authored or co-authored 14 widely read books including the 1992 best seller Paradigm Shift. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything was the best selling management book in 2007 and translated into over 25 languages.
Huffington Post called his newest work Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet, "nothing less than a game plan to fix a broken world."
It´s sad that this beauty natural form of starlings only be used to humans as a way to built better organizations, cooporations, that is: financial interest. Maybe we can start being more natural if we start being less greedy... more simple.
Yes. Clinton is far sighted with tech. She created a hackable server, promulgated her classified docs all over the place and then destroyed phones with a hammer after said docs were subpeonad. When asked about using her private server she claimed zero understanding of security and hacking. Yet, she's a guru!
Pretty well prepared presentation, putting together a series of observations. It falls short of proposing possible models/futures, but perhaps this was not his intent, perhaps he wanted to leave space for creativity. Listeners of this video might be interested in digging more about the p2p movement, or as I call it, the Multitude movement.
Great images, but it's a pity that the comment is a good example of human arrogance, stating that starlings are not intelligent and have no consciousness. Research has proven that starlings are intelligent, and they have some form of consciousness. And I doubt we humans could ever perform something close to murmuration.
Just because starlings can't build buildings or computers doesn't make them unintelligent. They do what is needed to survive, they build nests and gather food and shelter themselves from storms. It's pretty obvious they are the best dancers. Would take forever for that many humans to have choreography that good.
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Starlings form flocks and the gullible come in clouds. Keep the autonomy of our own information and brains. This is propaganda for transhumanism. Don’t get me? See the on line movie Trance-Formation by Max Igan. THE WORLD ALREADY HAS A COLLECTIVE CONCIOUSNESS AND YOU ARE PART OF IT, it only takes for you to wake up. Dons vision is a synthetic man made grid controlled by whom? It is not designed for your freedom but rather your further enslavement. BTW. He looks like George Bush only smart.
Thanks Sugarfree and Ulgrum... I'm sorry I used the word "intelligence" as the debate around this takes away from the important message in the video. That humans can link their intelligence and perhaps achieve some kind of collective consciousness. Macrowikinomics is about humans not animals. What do you all think of the idea of humans achieving collective intelligence?
@InvalidationX145 Thank you. I was just going to say that. He said "this is not a collective intelligence or collective consciousness, of course, because individual birds are not intelligent or conscious." The nerve! How can one look at this display and make such a foolish statement? Birds are not intelligent or conscious?! What are this guy's definitions of intelligent and conscious? What a surprising display of ignorance.
Is it food? Why does the "flock" seem to be around water? Do we know why? If we know why, how do we continue to trash our natural world in the face of such obvious beauty? Why do we doubt the fact that we are just another habitant in this world? We do NOT own the world or its resouces!
@InvalidationX145 1) i can like or dislike w/e I want 2) instinct is an evolutionary buildup of thousands of years of environmental feedback, hardcoded in the DNA and epigenetic proteins of a species 3) birds are intelligent because they can learn new things
This is a piece of work that cannot be either liked, nor disliked. The imagery and music tie in together to make a perfect piece, if not for the slanderous commentary stating that not just these birds, but all birds, have no intelligence, and no consciousness to speak of. If birds were unintelligent, then they would not know to find food, to run from predators... it is not just instinct. Instinct is created by knowledge; knowledge comes from intelligence. Therefore, birds are intelligent.
I should add and agree with most of the comments below about the narration. It detracted significantly from the obviously more intelligent display of flock behavior as an organic form of intelligence both beautiful and functional. For a while I thought I had the wrong audio and soon muted it.
The swirling morphology of the flock as a whole is mesmerizing to b sure. If one watches the behavior of the crisp margins one notes exploratory phalanges of brds one of which is right at thepredator, seemingly to have a look and then, in a moment, merge back toward the center of the mass. Then I look at this I wonder if it is an analog of how our own brains cobble together our consciousness.
Beautiful images, pleasant score, disturbingly idiotic naration - there is no "collaboration" among starlings, merely the instinct to avoid predation by hiding among other birds. This, coupled with the nimbleness of starlings, and their individual desires causes the ballet in this film. This is a free market; the manifestation of Smith's "invisible hand"
Perhaps the narrator meant that individual bird consciousness wasn't guiding the group when he commented about intelligence..dunno cause birds are obviously intelligent. I was glad to hear some of the bird facts but could do without the wish to grab starling talent and translate it to human organizations. I can see corporate leaders' mouths watering at the prospect of such pack mentality demonstrated on behalf of the corporate bottom line. I'd have preferred starling wing noise to human narrati
Think this could be shown at all conferences in the UK, it should be a flagship video for the Big Society. I think it is brilliant, but we are a while off being able to get everyone to collaborate digitally, probably due to the fact that a third of the country can't get a decent, fit for purpose connection through the obsolete copper phone network... but the future is coming. It just isn't here yet, but when it is we can make the most of digital technology to join the dots.
I love what you say about wikinomics and the digital natives. You people have a heart for that upcoming new net-generation. Thanks a lot for your inspiration. A german voice.
