Collective Intelligence

• Introduction about Collective Intelligence
• A quick definition of CI... that can be used during a conversation
• What is the "original Collective Intelligence" ?
• Why is Collective Intelligence so important today??
• Differences and similarities between Original CI annd CI at a large scale?
• Different definitions of CI
• Knowledge Ecology
• Open Source Software Intelligence: why is it getting higher than the private sector one?
• Social thermodynamics: where are the forces?
• Mapping the world?: to navigate in our mental universes

CI Properties

• Review of observable phenomena within a CI context
• The next wiki pages explore each property one by one, and seek methodologies to enhance them...
• Natural Information Systems?
• Feedback Loops?: they are part of dynamic systems, we will observe them between opposing forces or different levels of complexity
• Eminence of Emergence?
• Tacit Knowledge
• Standards?, the emerging fractal and holographic knowledge
• The territories of values, our new lands
• Role and stakes of the building of a shared vision

"Super-Something": Theories and Visions

• Introduction to theories of a "Super Something"?
• Buddhism?
• Collective Intelligence
• Collective IQ?
• Collective Consciousness?
• Collective unconsciousness?
• Collective Wisdom
• Connected Intelligence?
• Cybiont?
• Gaia?
• The Holographic Paradigm?: from Bohm to Pribram via Wilber...
• Noosphere
• Small Worlds? and the theory of networks
• Synchronicity?
• Tao?
• Zen?

"Super-Something": Thinkers and Figures

• Andrew Cohen
• Anthony Judge
• David Bohm
• Derrick de Kerckhove?
• Douglas Engelbart
• Douglas Hofstadter?
• Francis Heylighen?
• Fritjof Kapra?
• George Por?
• Joël de Rosnay?
• Karl Jung?
• Karl Pribram?
• Ken Wilber
• Marvin Minsky?
• McLuhan?
• Peter Russell?
• Pierre Lévy
• Richard Dawkins?
• Steve Mann
• Tom Adlee?
• Teilhard de Chardin?

Pierre Lévy's Theory and Project

Technology

• Collective Intelligence Technologies, what are they?
• Social Software: Why are they social?
• The magic of wikis
• The Whogle Vision & Technology: Find You, Find Me!
• From Antic to Semantic Web?
• CIML?: The Collective Intelligence Markup Language Project

Economics

Introduction

• What's wrong in our current economy ?
• A new vision on economy
• 10 preconceived notions about wealth
• Economic Parasitism?, or the scale invariance of life
• Different economies: Shortlist of those mentioned in TheTransitioner
• Hierarchy of Economies: A sorting of economies in the pyramid of complexity
• A possible scenario of economic evolution?
• The Opportunity Cost
• The Trust Circle?
• On Value - Thoughts of Money, Maslow, and Open Source
• What is a small economy?

Economy we are used to

• The Competition-Economy
• The Knowledge Competition-Economy
• Principles of Consumerism?
  • The Diktat of Packaging?
  • The More's Law?

Socioeconomy

• Definition
• The knowledge socioeconomy
• A short story of Socioeconomy?
• Challenges faced by the Socioeconomy?

The knowledge economy

• Ecology versus Economy, a matter of definitions
• Knowledge ecologies
• What is the knowledge economy
• How to make the baker come?
• Conditions for a Knowledge Socioeconomy?
• The question of meritocracy in the knowledge economy

Money and Currencies

• What is money?
• Why money is scarce ??
• National Currencies, principles and weaknesses
• Democratic money?
• Complementary Currencies: is there another money than just money? Help design new currencies in the Currency Lab
• Story of a counterfeit bill
• What is the critical threshold of diversity??
• Main Categories of Currencies? and their properties
  • Open source money and open money
    • Open Money Home Page
    • Open Money Characteristics
  • Aging Money
  • Complementary Currencies and Community Currencies?
  • Social Money?
  • Distributive Currencies? or distributism
  • Deterritorialized Currencies?
  • TimeDollar?
  • Etc...

• What are the melting pots where future currencies are being cooked??
• Currency Observatory: links to currency initiatives around the world
• Issues and question raised by micropayment
• Trust, security, safety
• Founding documents from different authors a must to read and download!
• The PIP, an Open Source tool for self-management of one's national money and alternative money

Other Economies

• The Gift Economy
• The Experience Economy
• The Quantic Economy?

Some characters in the economic and money fields

• Adam Smith
• Bernard Lietaer
• Dieter Suhr
• Erhard Glotzl
• Hazel Henderson
• Helmut Creutz
• Heloisa Primavera
• Irving Fisher
• Jacques Duboin
• Margrit Kennedy
• Michael Linton
• Michel Tavernier?
• Rudolf Steiner
• Silvio Gesell
• Thierry Gaudin
• Tom Greco
• Vladimir Nuri

Complexity

• What is complexity ?
• The DIKCIW hierarchy of complexity : to be discussed without complex
• Hierarchy of Indexing: how information gets into clusters, from bit to meme...
• Complexity and Cartesianism?: are they on opposite sides of the scale?
• Principia Cybernetica?
• Metasystem Transition Theory?, the baby of Principia Cybernetica
• Strange Loops?
• Spiral Dynamics, a psychological model of complexity
• Thermodynamics of Money?

Collective Intelligence and Economy

• What link between Collective Intelligence? and the design of alternative currencies??
• Conditions for alternative currencies to happen and be sustainable?
• Conditions for deterritorialized currencies to happen and be sustainable?
• CI Economy: the Economy of Collective Intelligence
• What about an intelligent currency? for Collective Intelligence?

Issues and Society

• Cooperation versus Competition
• Sustainable Development
• The Industrial Paradigm?
• Principles and consequences of disintermediation
• What is Authority
• The Cultural Creatives
• Are you a Transitioner ?
• Social networks
• Constructivism?, the world we build
• What do we call Scarce Resources?
• What do we call the "scarcity paradigm"??
• What is the "abundance paradigm"??
• The Triadic Theory of Power?
• Emergent Democracy?, what difference with "Democracy" alone?
• Occidentoriality?, the wedding between Eastern and Western views of the world
• Mind Traps, a review and critic of concepts used in our work, and how they can be seen as traps
• Democracy and Scarcity?, do they come together?
• Are we in a plutocracy?
• "Sousveillance" as a condition for trust and safety
• Excessive Debt?
• What difference between a job and a work??
• Principles and exemples of causal beliefs

Prospective and Vision

• The global relinkage? or the invisible transformation of social structures
• Open Source Intelligence
• Territories of Values
• The Future Cyberspace Layers
• Tomorrow's Communications?
• Our Future Social Superposed States: shall we be Schrödinger Cats?
• What behavioral transformation ? CI practice requires fundamental evolutionary transformation
• Spiritual Technologies?: how future technologies are to become spiritual levers?
• Man, agent of the Conscious Universe
• The Density of Time? in the CI perspective

Action

• Main objectives at TheTransitioner
• List of projects
• What Daily Action applicable everyday?
• Ethical Consumer
• Collective Intelligence and Governance: let's associate TheTransitioner to help improve governance in organizations
• Potential partners and partners
• Potential funders and funders?

The CIN (Collective Intelligence Network)

• Homepage?
• CIN Aims?
• Building the CIN?
• CIN Domain Name?
• The CIBN (Collective Intelligence Business Network)
• CIN participants?

Wisdom and Happiness

• Wisdom as the Art of Happiness
• What is Spirituality??
• The Wisdom Economy?
• Yin and Yang?, the ambivalence of everything or the Tao of Economy
• Mu, or the nature of things?
• Virtues of the "let go"?, in particular as an economic engine

Appendix

People

• Who's who in TheTransitioner?
• Partners and potential partners

Links

• Friend sites

Wiki Text formatting rules

• HomePage, the beginning of everything
• Guided Tour of the main functionalities in this site
• Text formatting rules to edit wiki pages
• SandBox to make sand pâtés and learn wiki

Conversations

• Conversation about happiness, JF Noubel and Owen
• Digital Divide, what is it? How to react? What opportunities for the third-world?