[FRIAM] Amazon.com: The Wisdom of Crowds: Books: James Surowiecki

[Joshua Thorp]

Apropos the wisdom of crowds and web 2.0, Jaron Lanier wrote a  
combative essay for the Edge about the new "Digital Maoism".  Part of  
it seems to be a standard libertarian rant on the importance of  
individualism and may be a bit attacking the forest without  
acknowledging it is actually made up of trees but is interesting none- 
the-less.  As are the many rebuttals.

For those interested in wikipedia bashing or hive mind dialogue:
http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge183.html

--joshua