Dispatches from the Frontier
Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Monday, April 07, 2003
Musings on Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Monday, April 07, 2003Economic conspiracy theories are on my mind.
9:50:55 PM 
Michael Helfrich points to a recent article by DC Denison of The Boston Globe on how the military and others are using tools such as Groove to tap swarm intelligence to solve problems better and faster.
He correctly credits "Chapter One" of the internet's history to DARPA. He talks of "Chapter Two" and the military/technology trend taking hold right now in the form of social software that uses the internet as it was intended. Decentralized groups of people swarming with a common purpose, using the net as a platform for connectivity, leveraging the net's inherent pervasiveness and high availability.
10:27:20 AM