Friday, October 1, 2010

Swarm Intelligence

Pedestrians also form "rivers" when
they walk in crowds,  just like fish.
Swarm intelligence is something that we all participate in albeit, unintentionally.   To the left is a crowd of New Yorkers walking down Fifth Avenue. As they do so they form "rivers" and or "currents" not unlike a school of fish or a flock of birds. 

I think that I want to do my project on Swarm Intelligence.  I want to see and to show how much we belong to a society that has swarm behavior.  I also want to investigate how swarms in nature behave and how we can learn from nature in our own human swarms.  What are the characteristics of a swarm?  What rules does a swarm obey?  What is the difference between swarm intelligence and mob intelligence?  What are the best examples of swarm intelligence that we have in our society today?  Can we use swarm intelligence to help our society?  To stop war and or hunger?  This is what I want to investigate. 





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  1. Pam2October 4, 2010 at 6:03 AM

    You could think about using Twitter--it seems that people "flock" or "swarm" using this mode of communication. Check out David Pogue's book on Twitter, and read some of this old columns in the NYT about his Twitter adventures. He gave a talk in which he used Twitter (he has about a million followers) to get answers to questions that he posed in the moment. It was a fascinating event, and I think sheds light on how swarms of people form and work together.

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