“The trouble with the global village are all the global village idiots. - Paul Ginsparg.”
(as written on imdb.com, by the way)
Austin Hair wrote:
I heard this guy on the BBCWS, a few weeks back--interesting stuff; he goes so far as to suggest that a group will often be smarter than its smartest member due to the dynamic created, and given a large enough sampling over a long enough period of time will actually outperform the best single experts in any given field, or something to that effect.