Tim O'Reilly - Birth of the Global Mind

Tim O'Reilly presents: Birth of the Global Mind

"The history of civilization is a story of evolution in our ability to build complex 'multicellular minds,'" says Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media (books, conferences, foo camps, Maker Faires,Make magazine.)

Speech allowed us to communicate and coordinate.  Writing allowed that coordination to span time and space. Twentieth century mass communications allowed shared information and culture to blanket the world.  In the 21st century, memes spread mind to mind in nearly real time.  

But that's not all.  In one breakthrough computer application after another, we see a new kind of man-machine symbiosis.  The Google autonomous vehicle turns out not to be just a triumph of artificial intelligence algorithms.  The car is guided by the cloud memory of roads driven before by human Google Streetview drivers augmented by powerful and precise new sensors. In the same way, crowd-sourced data from sensor-enabled humans is leading to smarter cities, breakthroughs in healthcare, and new economies.  

The future belongs not to artificial intelligence, but to collective intelligence.

The Long Now Foundation's monthly series Seminars About Long-term Thinking

Seminar hosted by Stewart Brand
http://www.longnow.org/people/board/sb1/

Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm lasting ~1.5 hours

Advance Tickets Recommended - Tickets are $10
http://longnow.org/seminars/02012/sep/05/birth-global-mind/

Long Now Members get complimentary tickets
https://longnow.org/membership/

Live Audio Stream of the Seminar for Long Now Members
http://longnow.org/live/

There will be a reception at The Long Now Museum & Store following the Seminar
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About the Series:
The Seminars About Long-term Thinking were started in 02003 to build a coherent, compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking, to help nudge civilization toward Long Now's goal of making long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare.