ABSTRACT
Why Read This Text? James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds revisits a century-old theory of “crowd” or collective intelligence but sheds new light, and new enthusiasm, on the topic. Collective intelligence, sometimes called opinion aggregation,* is a core concept in politics, biology, economics, and risk assessment,* and is becoming more important in criminal forensics* investigations
The Wisdom of Crowds provides us with a unique perspective on the power of ourselves and the ways in which we can come together to accomplish huge tasks. Through the creative use of case study examples from current and historic times, Surowiecki first makes the case for diverse application of collective intelligence by showing the reader the best of what it can accomplish and the amazement of its accuracy.
