Large-Scale Collective IQ: Facilitating its Evolution

Accelerating Change 2004 Abstracts are being posted as they come in.

This one I didn't know and it blows my mind: " SAP customers process roughly 50% of the world's GDP through its systems annually ..." Talking about influence.

I am really looking forward to the big picture outlook for example Doug Engelbart's:

Large-Scale Collective IQ: Facilitating its Evolution

Yes, the pace of change is accelerating: the number of aspects of our life that are changing is itself accelerating; the rates of their respecive changing are accelerating; the secondary adjustments of each change vector to accommodate the other change-vector changes are accelerating -- an expanded "acceleration" perspective seems necessary for appropriately dealing with this situation.

Picture all of the world's humans trundling along in one common "human-society vehicle," carrying us in semi-separate, national/cultural "compartments" that are each evolving through its accelerating social, technological, economic, political, religious, etc. changes.

This vehicle is moving us faster and faster through an ever-more complex, multi-dimensioned space -- and increasing places in that "space" are dangerous for our society to stumble into. Are "we humans" in control? Sorry, but today we couldn't steer it even if the path were laid out for us.

Do "we" anyway have vision that is clear- and farsighted-enough to guide it if we did have "steerage control" of the vehicle?

My personal orientation has focussed on the need for what is essentially an "Augmented Collective IQ" capability which can provide both (1) the improved collective vision as to where we are headed and where we best should be headed, and (2) the improved collective control for steering our civilization/vehicle toward that envisioned future.

I will lay out a proposed strategic framework for facilitating the evolution of our collective IQ on a world scale.