<div><div>Thank you Sergio and Natasha :-) <br><br>Howard Bloom's book Lucifer principle is on its way. My goal will be computational, but anything will help. The more ideas I find the better.<br><br>I also found a very good book on programming Collective Intelligence from an algorithmic sense, from O'Reilly, which has been a very interesting read.
<br><br>Thank you both for the help and thanks Natasha for the interest. I'll make sure you're both amongst the first to benefit from what I'm going to attempt next. <br><br>- Andres,<br><a href="http://www.Thoughtware.TV">
Thoughtware.TV</a><br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">This is a great project and I look forward to<br>hearing about what you do with it. It is not my
<br>field but if it were my research project, I<br>would find as much information on this topic as<br>possible (googling is easy), and create a<br>bibliography of references. Skim through the<br>material, jot down notes on what relates to you
<br>questions. Then come up with a few new more<br>target questions that shows that you have some<br>knowledge of the area. That will help anyone<br>responding to better address your concerns/questions/etc.<br><br>>And second and most important: How can it be harnessed?
<br>>I would like to see examples on how it can be<br>>harnessed. From bacterial colonies, web-services<br>>and human computation, I would like for you to<br>>share any resources, blogs, websites, books,<br>>fiction or not, arts, anything you can remember or find.
<br><br>Okay, will do in the immersive arts, etc.<br><br>Natasha<br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:29:07 -0500<br>From: Bryan Bishop <<a href="mailto:kanzure@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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