Pierre Levy’s “Collective Intelligence: Mankind’s Emerging World in Cyberspace” in brief and use.

Pierre Levy is a professor in the department of hyperspace media at the University of Paris and is a firm believer that technology will eventual create “living cities” where physical location takes a back seat to interaction between its members.

A few insights from his work “Collective Intelligence: Mankind’s Emerging World in Cyberspace,” include the importance of listening, thoughts on real-time democracy and new forms of writing.

A decent example of Levy’s work in action is Journo Student: Thoughts and Exploits. In the blog, the author discusses the future of various mediums and also gives examples of where online writing is heading *cough* *cough* “twitter” *cough* and how to use them properly.

It’s been a while since the author has posted, the last updated being in April 2009, but as time has shown, her posts, especially about twitter, have come true.

On a more personal level, I find Levy to be right. The future definitely seems to be moving toward a cyber-community, with citizens hailing from all parts of the world.

Now, I wonder, how long will it be until we establish a single, world-wide government, just like those movies and television shows about the future have established.

~ by mfstromski on November 10, 2009.