Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex (2010)
As Matt Ridley put it in his book “The Rational Optimist” (2010), what happened over the past two centuries is that “ideas started having sex.”
The Memes Between the Lines. Whispering.
Articles About Collective Intelligence
I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read (1958)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" - TED (2010) - ukelele cover
[CICOLAB] Rapid Learning Network and Wisdom Stack
3 reasons for optimism in difficult times
6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Paul Stamets | TED (2008)
7 tools for building a business people trust
10 things you didn't know about orgasm
2021-03-25 OGM Check-in Call
2022-02-19 Group Discussion About The Week, Part 3
2022-08-04 FoTL Call (part 1)
2023-06-14 Collective Intelligence for Democracy Webinar
2023-06-29 OGM Check-in Call
A 40-year plan for energy
A Faster Way to Get to a Clean Energy Future (2023)
A futuristic vision of the age of holograms
A Minimum Viable Ecosystem for collective intelligence
A path to security for the world's deadliest countries (2019)
A practical way to help the homeless find work and safety
A simple birth kit for mothers in the developing world
A TED speaker's worst nightmare
A Visual History of Human Knowledge
Adam Sadowsky: How to engineer a viral music video
Adora Svitak (12): What adults can learn from kids
African fractals, in buildings and braids (video)
Al Gore: The case for optimism on climate change (2016)
Al Vernacchio: Sex needs a new metaphor. Here's one ...
Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon!
Alex Rosenthal: The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts
Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media
Allan Savory: How to green the desert and reverse climate change
Amanda Palmer: The art of asking
Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now (2010)
Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web
Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are
Anand Agarawala: Rethink the desktop with BumpTop
Anand Giridharadas: A letter to all who have lost in this era (2016! xlnt)
Anand Giridharadas: A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided
Andrew Blum: Discover the physical side of the internet
Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like?
Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit
Anil Gupta: India's hidden hotbeds of invention
Anil Seth: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality (2017)
Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters
Anne Lamott: 12 truths I learned from life and writing
Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we're born
Ants, Brains, Cities, and Podcasts
Are Humans REALLY That Smart? A new book says it’s complicated.
Are we in control of our decisions? (2008)
Are we the last generation -- or the first sustainable one? (2023, not crazy about her logic)
Asha de Vos: Why you should care about whale poo
Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?
Augmented Collective Intelligence (2)
Barry Schwartz: The way we think about work is broken
Becoming a Hyper-Learning Community: The Future of Business
Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life
Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science
Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D
Benjamin Barber: Why mayors should rule the world
Benjamin Zander on music and passion
Benjamin Zander: Classical music with shining eyes
Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World (2017)
Bill Ford: A future beyond traffic gridlock
Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!
Bill Stone: Exploring deep caves (and someday the moon)
Bill Strickland makes change with a slide show (2002)
Bill Strickland: Rebuilding a neighborhood with beauty, dignity, hope
Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time
Biohacking -- you can do it, too (2012)
BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life
Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales
Blog of Collective Intelligence
Bloom’s five forces of collective intelligence
Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria communicate
Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering
Brenda Laurel: Games for girls
Brené Brown: Listening to shame (2012 xlnt)
Bringing peace to the minds of Afghanistan
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita predicts Iran's future
Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice
Build Your Own Metaverse — and Share it!
Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement
Cameron Sinclair: A call for open-source architecture
Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?
Can we build AI without losing control over it? (2016)
Candy Chang: Before I die I want to...
Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up
Carl Safina: What are animals thinking and feeling? (2015)
Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds
Carne Ross: An independent diplomat
Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy
Casey Gerald: The gospel of doubt
Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday compassion at Google
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.
Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats
Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
Christopher "moot" Poole: The case for anonymity online
Christopher Emdin: Teach teachers how to create magic
Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?
Cindy Gallop: Make love, not porn
Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration
Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world
Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government
Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea
Clifford Stoll: The call to learn
Cloudy with a chance of joy
Co-Intelligence: The Applied Wisdom of Wholeness, Interconnectedness, and Co-Creativity (2024)
Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently (2015)
Collective Intelligence Handbook (in progress)
Collective Intelligence in Social News, the Role of a Social Network in Our Emerging ‘Global…
Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in Cyberspace (1994 L’Intelligence collective. Pour une anthropologie du cyberespace)
Collective Intelligence: The Invisible revolution
Comparing “the wisdom of crowds” to real collective wisdom
Connected Intelligence: Leveraging Collective Wisdom (pdf)
Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2006)
Could an Orca Give a TED Talk? | Karen Bakker | TED (2023)
Courtney Martin: Reinventing feminism
Courtney Martin: The new American Dream (2016)
CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think | Jennifer Doudna | TED
Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots
Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives
Dan Ariely: Our buggy moral code
Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish
Dan Barber's foie gras parable
Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong
Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory
Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot
Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing
Daniele Quercia: Happy maps
David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer
David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min
David Cameron: The next age of government (2010)
David Christian: Big history
David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes (2011)
David Deutsch on our place in the cosmos
David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans? (2015)
David Epstein: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
David Hoffman on losing everything
David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
David Merrill demos Siftables, the smart blocks
Dawn Landes: A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane
Deb Roy: The birth of a word
Deepa Narayan: 7 beliefs that can silence women (xlnt)
Defining Collective Intelligence
Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?
Designing Collective Intelligence
Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs west -- the myths that mystify
Diane Kelly: What we didn’t know about penis anatomy
Dixon Chibanda: Why I train grandmothers to treat depression
Do We See Reality as It Is?
Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world
Doris Kearns Goodwin on learning from past presidents
Douglas Engelbart: Only Collective IQ Can Save Us
Douglas Rushkoff: How to be "Team Human" in the digital future
Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?
Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons
Ed Snowden Televisits TED (2014)
Ed Yong: Suicidal crickets, zombie roaches and other parasite tales
Edward Burtynsky: Manufactured Landscapes (2008)
Einstein the Parrot talks and squawks
Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head
Eleni Gabre-Madhin on Ethiopian economics
Eli Pariser: What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good? (2019)
Elizabeth Loftus: How reliable is your memory? (2013)
Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works — live at TED2022
Emily Levine: A theory of everything
Emily Levine: How I made friends with reality
Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change
Enric Sala: Glimpses of a pristine ocean
Eric Berlow and Sean Gourley: Mapping ideas worth spreading
Eric Berlow: How complexity leads to simplicity
Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport
Eric Mead: The magic of the placebo
Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong
Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems
Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
Ethan Nadelmann: Why we need to end the War on Drugs
Euvin Naidoo: Why invest in Africa (2007)
Eva Galperin: What you need to know about stalkerware
Evelyn Glennie shows how to listen
Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong (TED talk)
Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups (2010 pdf)
Experiment in contemplative co-tweeting (7/2009)
Fact-checking the Bible (2018)
Four ways to fix a broken legal system
Freeing energy from the grid
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Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex (2010)
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