The Cloud and Collaboration
Presentation
September 6, 2009
Delivered to Ars Electronica Symposium on Cloud Intelligence, Linz, Austria.
Stephen Downes @ Ars Electronica, Cloud Intelligence Symposium.
In this presentation I describe the concept of the internet as a form of global consciousness. I look at the idea of human nature as it has traditionally been represented but suggest that a more appropriate model is that of a collection of neurons. With this model I analyse what a global consciousness would look like - not collaboration, as in the organization of a company or a nation, but cooperation, as in the actions of autonomous but interdependent and connected individuals. Text written for the talk is available online (this is not a transcript). (Keynote)
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