Programming the Global Brain - MIT - Pdf - and related ideas from my experience July 8, 2012

I have just been reading Programming the Global Brain - MIT - Pdf  - http://cci.mit.edu/publications/CCIwp2011-04.pdf (more details below).

In my mind it connects with various other things - no time to explain the connections in depth - but perhaps worth noting them:

• Gary Alexander - and his book  eGaia, Growing a peaceful sustainable Earth through communications
• Personal imaginations of a future related to more of a thinking-together life style The Future we Got - Earth Date Zero Plus Twenty  - included in - The Future we Deserve  
• Extensive work by David Pinto related to effective engagement, alignment and confluence 
• Practical work I am doing with Nikki Fishman - relates to the idea of being "stronger together" in various situations, especially in the changing world of work - theory not visible yet but the practical actuality we are working on starting to show at - Collage-network; Age of Collaboration
• Aspects of collaboration and issues of the interface between human (analogue) approaches and computer (digital) ones
• Collaborataion challenges, particularly across these two types: 1 - people who want to "know what they are going to do" before they do it so they can plan to do it effectively, 2 - people who want to "start doing it before they plan" so they can let what they are going to do emerge more freely and appropriately - Collaboration challenges - and lessons from Yehudi Menuhin and Stephane Grappelli    
• Personal analysis of how things are now  -  "The Invisible Revolution"  - included in - Despatches from the Invisible Revolution   

I would love to be part of some of the collaborative active thinking around these issues. How do we bring together the best of "creative human-being thinking and problem solving" with the best of "digital, programmed, information processing and problem solving". As human intelligence and artificial intelligence draw closer together will it be a "marriage made in heaven or a marriage made in hell" ....  and what of the character of our progeny?
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Thanks to everyone along the way who has passed on the Programming the Global Brain link so that I have had the opportunity to read it. (Dante-Gabryell Monson, Francis H, Global Brain Discussion <gbrain@listserv.vub.ac.be>, p2p-foundation <p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org>)