FUSION #14 - COLLECTIVE
Greetings fellow Fusionites, and welcome to another Wednesday edition of FUSION, our weekly round-up of things that are inspiring and challenging us this week.
Today, the theme is the COLLECTIVE. With our simultaneously growing connection and alienation from the world, this subject is a deep one that touches on what it means to be a human living in the 21st century. ????
The Stupidity of Herds & the Wisdom of Crowds is part of a lecture by Dan Levy at Harvard. It looks at how groups of people can either be incredibly wise or incredibly stupid, depending on the circumstances. We love it because it gives insight into the kind of group dynamics that are present in our increasingly polarised online worlds.
Why All Intelligence is Collective Intelligence is a video by the biologist Michael Levin that looks at what intelligence is. We love it because it provides the biological framework for how collective intelligence works.
The ‘Quiet Catastrophe’ Brewing in Our Social Lives is a New York Times podcast that looks at how, even though we’re more connected than ever before, there’s an epidemic of loneliness in our society. We love it because it addresses something that people across the globe are feeling.?