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Tim O'Reilly: Birth of the Global Mind

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Partner:: Long Now Foundation
Location:: Cowell Theatre
San Francisco, California
Event Date:: 09.05.12
Speaker:: Tim O'Reilly
Tags:: collective intelligence; gift culture; crowd-sourced; artificial intelligence; topten2012

Summary

Tim O'Reilly discusses how evolving technology has disrupted society, and has given birth to the global mind. "The history of civilization is a story of evolution in our ability to build complex 'multicellular minds,'" says Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media (books, conferences, foo camps, Maker Faires, Make magazine.)

Speech allowed us to communicate and coordinate. Writing allowed that coordination to span time and space. Twentieth century mass communications allowed shared information and culture to blanket the world. In the 21st century, memes spread mind to mind in nearly real time.

But that's not all. In one breakthrough computer application after another, we see a new kind of man-machine symbiosis. The Google autonomous vehicle turns out not to be just a triumph of artificial intelligence algorithms. The car is guided by the cloud memory of roads driven before by human Google Streetview drivers augmented by powerful and precise new sensors. In the same way, crowd-sourced data from sensor-enabled humans is leading to smarter cities, breakthroughs in healthcare, and new economies.

The future belongs not to artificial intelligence, but to collective intelligence.

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Tim O'Reilly

Tim O’Reilly is founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly also hosts conferences, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, Strata Online Conference, and Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. O’Reilly’s MAKE magazine and Maker Faire have been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution. O’Reilly is also a partner at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online. He watches the alpha geeks to determine emerging technology trends and uses his platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community.

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01 hr 35 min 54 sec

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01.: Introduction by Stewart Brand

01 min 58 sec

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02.: Tim O'Reilly

04 min 36 sec

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03.: Human Potential Movement

06 min 10 sec

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04.: Human Consciousness is Still Evolving

09 min 16 sec

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05.: Web 2.0

10 min 05 sec

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06.: Feedback Loops

08 min 30 sec

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07.: Economy of the Future

07 min 38 sec

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08.: Open Source Software

05 min 58 sec

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09.: Questions and Answers with Stewart Brand

02 min 04 sec

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10.: Question 02

02 min 16 sec

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11.: Question 03

01 min 25 sec

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12.: Question 04

01 min 12 sec

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13.: Question 05

02 min 20 sec

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14.: Question 06

01 min 59 sec

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15.: Question 07

04 min 45 sec

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16.: Question 08

03 min 05 sec

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17.: Question 09

03 min 42 sec

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18.: Question 10

03 min 04 sec

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19.: Question 11

02 min 31 sec

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20.: Question 12

02 min 37 sec

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21.: Question 13

01 min 19 sec

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22.: Question 14

03 min 22 sec

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23.: Question 15

05 min 10 sec

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24.: Closing Credits

00 min 53 sec

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Why Privacy Activists Are Wrong About the Global Mind

01 min 40 sec

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Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, discusses what he sees as the problem with online privacy activists and their attempt to close down the global mind. He argues that the future of the Internet lies in sharing and openness, and that too much privacy will limit its potential.
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01 hr 35 min 54 sec

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