Google Consciousness spreading…
Jan
19
2012
Jan
11
2012
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Global Brain (but were afraid to ask)
Someone recently put up a great Knol on Collective Intelligence, Global Brain, Human Sentient Network, etc etc etc or whatever we choose to call it.
It lays out pretty clearly the various points of view that suggest a collective intelligence system, of which humanity may play a significant, but not exclusive, role.
Read it here.
Jan
09
2012
Hackers from Europe building new internet in space
This is a novel approach to the coming SOPA ruling - a group of hackers from Germany have determined that well organized individuals now have the technology and capability of the US Space program in the 60’s. Roughly, this means that a user generated and controlled internet could easily be installed in space.
Popsci today says “The Hackerspace Global Grid was borne out of a call to action at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, where hackers of all stripes gather to mull the issues of the day as they relate to their craft. Hacker activist Nick Farr—motivated by legislation like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S.—called on the community to contribute to a project that would remove the power of censorship from governments and corporations by creating an uncensored Internet in the free frontier of space.”
Read more at Popsci: German Hackers Are Building a DIY Space Program to Put Their Own Uncensored Internet into Space
Dec
30
2011
Occupy protestors creating new social network
Wired magazine is running a piece about a handful of Occupy Wall Street protestors who have begun to create a new social network. Personally I believe this is more than likely to be the beginning of the first ‘digital’ governance system than many of the ‘collective’ intelligence systems are starting to emerge.
Now it’s time for activists to move beyond other people’s social networks and build their own, according to Knutson. “We don’t want to trust Facebook with private messages among activists,” he said. The same thinking applies to Twitter and other social networks — and the reasoning became clear last week, when a Massachusetts district attorney subpoenaed Twitter for information about the account @OccupyBoston and other accounts connected to the Boston movement. (To its credit, Twitter has a policy of giving users the opportunity to contest such orders when possible.) In the FGA system, each group has a discussion on what information to push to their home page, such as a description of an event, a blog post or minutes from a meeting. “In the same way that, when you look at Reddit, you know that the articles on top are the most upvoted, the user could know that posts appearing on a front page represent the concerted agreement of the group,” said Boyer. The activist coders also want to be able to push and pull info to and from the rest of the movement. The idea is that they can have disparate systems that label info with shared tags that will, some day, make it possible to enter a search on any one site and pull precise results from around the world. Ed Knutson’s job is to get those sites talking to each other, even though the content may be in different languages (English, Spanish, Arabic, etc.) and created with different content management systems, or CMSs, such as Drupal or Wordpress. The Global Square network will connect not through those systems but through “semantic Web” standards designed to link up disparate technologies.
Since we introduced the concept of social media replacing government in April of 2010 under the meme ‘Google Consciousness’, we are reporting evidence of this emerging system of organization, which will, as predicted in our TED talk, happen much sooner and be much easier than anyone expected.
Read more of the Wired article here
Nov
20
2011
I’m writing this post from Liberation Square, the heart and center of the Egyptian revolution.
If you dont know it already we’re rising against military ruling in the same way we have risen against Mubarak’s regime, we’ve taken our protests to the streets in main cities since the dawn of the 19th of November, I’ve been away from my home for about 28 hours now.
We’ve been hit extensively with rubber bullets and tear gas. Also some explosives that explode mid-air spreading thousands of metallic particles that pop protesters’ eyes and burns a lot on impact, I dont know why the police keep using the same old mentality that we’re supposed to have changed.
The sole purpose of this Egyptian rise is to end the military ruling and recognize the army as a vital structure of our country but not above the law.
Edit: You can check my past AMAs since the rise of the Egyptian revolution here and here
I’m open to any questions you might have, if I dont answer for a while I’ll be probably heading for an indoor shelter away from all this suffocating tear gas. AMA
Edit: I’ll be heading to some place to charge my laptop and cellphone and probably get some medical supplies to help those who are injured, I’ll be back as soon as I can.
EDIT: (5pm Cairo time) I have to go now the army is officially attacking protesters here I cant be sure when I’ll be back
Edit: (5:30pm Cairo time) The military police violently cleared liberation square, torching all cars and motorcycles in the vicinity, I’m wounded in my neck and knee by some of those metallic explosives, it’s not so bad though, I’m going home to shower and regain strength and go back in a couple of hours. I wont be able to answer any questions for a couple of hours, wish us luck.
Nov
11
2011
Using the web to re-organize government as a meme continues to gain momentum.
In our talk “Google Consciousness”, we use the metaphor #googcon as a symbol of collective intelligence re-organizing society using nothing more complex than available social media tools such as wiki’s, Google labs and feeds such as Twitter and Facebook.
This idea appears to be picking up more and more steam, partly due to strong feelings in the Occupy Wallstreet movement. Personally, I believe this idea will begin to achieve critical mass by this time next year.
This image was found on Twitter by user @Usethisidea to @yourAnonNews.
Nov
05
2011
Nov
01
2011
REDDIT goes viral with Internet Democracy 2.0
By Rome Viharo for Google Consciousness
Back in April, when Maf Lewis and I were giving our TEDx talk on Google Consciousness - we playfully mentioned the possibilities of ‘Reddit Consciousness’ and suggested that these sorts of phenomenon would emerge to produce systems of social administration that would eventually replace government.
A few days ago on Reddit, user ‘Humans, Inc’ posted a thread that sat at the top of Reddit for days, title “Reddit can enable “occupy” movements to permanently shift power from corporations to the people and move the world into a new era”
Offering to provide financial support to build such an engine, redditors flooded Humans, Inc with suggestions and helpful advice on moving forward.
A few years ago, such a suggestion would have been laughed or trolled off the internet, now it is a serious contender for problem solving.
As someone who has worked on creating such an ‘elegant discussion algorithm’ for almost 9 years now, I look at this as very exciting change and confirmation that the emergence of “Google Consciousness”, our metaphor for collective intelligence restructuring the world, is closer than many of us think or are prepared for.
Oct
01
2011
Birth of the global mind - Tim O’Reilly
The web is a perfect example of what engineer and early computer scientist Vannevar Bush called “intelligence augmentation” by computers, in his 1945 article “As We May Think” in The Atlantic. He described a future in which human ability to follow an associative knowledge trail would be enabled by a device he called “the memex”. This would improve on human memory in the precision of its recall. Google is today’s ultimate memex.
Sep
16
2011
TEDx TALK: Google Consciousness
TedxCardiff
Global Brain Group
Conscious Entities
Guillermo Arevalo
email: g.consciousness@gmail.com
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