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Apr 23, 2008

Decentralisation and the wisdom of crowds

I've recently been reading The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki. It's an interesting book, and despite many America-centric examples the author uses (which I quickly started to skim over),I recommend it to anyone who's interested in the notion of 'crowd' intelligence. As a user and writer of Free Software, I was particularly keen to read the chapter on decentralisation, which uses GNU/Linux as an example of where decentralisation has been successful. On this subject Surowiecki writes:

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