[OT] Wisdom of Crowds

Thomas Milne thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 13 05:27:37 UTC 2011


This is an absolutely fascinating book. He mentions the development of Linux
as an example of the idea that a sufficiently large and diverse enough
'crowd' is more intelligent than the most expert among them. Really worth
reading, with _amazing_ examples of crowdsourcing solutions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds

It's available on Amazon for the Kindle, if you are so enabled :)

-- 
Thomas Milne
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