W6: How important are contributions of a single individual in the sea of "collective intelligence"? / WANG XIAOLING, 왕효령

 1) Summary

Collective intelligence is a kind of shared or group intelligence, and a process of gathering opinions from people and turning them into decision-making. For example, Wikipedia is a large community with many contributors. Everyone has their own opinions on what they say and do, and everyone in this community can edit. A person can contribute to Wikipedia for a long time and create a large number of entries, which has played an important role in the development and growth of Wikipedia. Just as a drop of water never dries up until it is put in the ocean, a person is most powerful only when he is fused together in the ocean of "collective intelligence". Today, Wikipedia has approximately 132,000 active editors, and some users who have not registered an account have made their own contributions to the site. Statistics show that Wikipedia currently has about 600 new articles every day, of which more than three-quarters are contributed by only 1,300 people. Make Wikipedia more and more popular. Therefore, the success of Wikipedia is inseparable from the efforts of everyone, and one person's contribution plays an important role in the ocean of "collective intelligence". 


2) Interesting point

Web 2.0 realizes interactivity, so users can publish their own content. Collective intelligence relies on this to improve the social sharing of existing knowledge.


3) Discussion point 

In the ocean of "collective intelligence", the individual can influence the collective, so does the collective affect the individual?


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