Big Mind, Geoff Mulgan
Big Mind, Geoff Mulgan
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Big Mind
How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World

Author: Geoff Mulgan

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/28/2017

Synopsis

A new field of collective intelligence has emerged in the last few years, prompted by a wave of digital technologies that make it possible for organizations and societies to think at large scale. This "bigger mind"?human and machine capabilities working together?has the potential to solve the great challenges of our time. So why do smart technologies not automatically lead to smart results? Gathering insights from diverse fields, including philosophy, computer science, and biology, Big Mind reveals how collective intelligence can guide corporations, governments, universities, and societies to make the most of human brains and digital technologies.

Geoff Mulgan explores how collective intelligence has to be consciously organized and orchestrated in order to harness its powers. He looks at recent experiments mobilizing millions of people to solve problems, and at groundbreaking technology like Google Maps and Dove satellites. He also considers why organizations full of smart people and machines can make foolish mistakes?from investment banks losing billions to intelligence agencies misjudging geopolitical events?and shows how to avoid them.

About Geoff Mulgan

Geoff Mulgan is professor of collective intelligence, social innovation, and public policy at University College London. Formerly he was chief executive of Nesta, and held several government roles (1997-2004), including as the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit director and as Downing Street's head of policy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christine on April 13, 2018

Collective Consciousness can change our world - unfortunately I found this book difficult to read and absorbed none of the content. Disappointed as I really was looking forward to a deep dive into this.......more

Goodreads review by Josh on January 05, 2018

Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World by Geoff Mulgan is a book about how organizations can use their soft resources, the ones that don’t show up on the balance sheet, to become more effective in setting and achieving their mission. Big Mind is a well-researched, well-written an......more

Goodreads review by Charlene on September 03, 2019

The gist is that Mulgan is trying to understand collective thinking, its flaws and benefits, to build AI systems that help better inform society about how to run it self. How can understanding collective intelligence inform how we build or rebuild democracy, medicine, other important parts of societ......more

Goodreads review by Daniil on January 31, 2018

Collective Intelligence is a topic that interests me both personally and professionally. A large part of my job is to help humans and machines collaborate well. This is why I pre-ordered this book and was looking forward to reading it. My enthusiasm got me 25% through the book. Then I realized that I......more

Goodreads review by Darren on December 18, 2017

You may have heard about ‘big data’, the buzzword de jour that promises a lot of benefits, but perhaps not so much the phrase ‘big mind’. The concept of using collective intelligence to think at scale shouldn’t be so unclear. What it means and how it is utilised, however, can be something else. Enter......more

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