In an essay published on the Ars Industrialis website, Jean-François Ballay wonders about the functioning of collective intelligence and the pathologies it might conceal. This notion of collective ...

We are a society of seven billion human beings all with the ability to almost instantly connect. In seconds, we can send a text message or start a video chat with a friend on the other side of the ...

A field of poppies is harder to cut down than a single tall one. @IndigenousX host Carla McGrath reflects on planting the seeds for a new generation of collaborative Aboriginal and Torres Strait ...

Following the advent of the digitization era, the half-life of confidential information is getting shorter as symbolized by WikiLeaks, a secrets disclosure site. In addition, the emergence of the ...

No matter who we are, we depend on a complex social environment for who we are and become. Individuals are born into a nested series of contexts, from family to friends, education to broad political, ...

Different artificial intelligence units will one day be able to team up and share information with each other – just like the Borg in Star Trek, according to leading computer experts. The Borg are ...

Mass collaboration and the aggregation of information enable potentially profound changes in business and politics. In this class, we will compare and contrast the transformations in economic life and ...

A recent decision by the D.C. Circuit is a significant victory for corporate defendants in a long-running dispute over how to evaluate the state of mind of a corporation faced with criminal or ...