The Collaborative Society

 

Research Threads Bare

CollaborativeSociety.org is a site which explores the thinking of researchers, academicians and thought-leaders on the topic of collaboration, among other things. Thanks to Alfred Birkegaard and Katja Carlsen for providing the video content. The contribution of The Collaboration Project is these transcripts.

The video interviews are source material for a documentary on collaboration. The transcripts are unabridged and capture streams of conversation that may meander at times. The tone has been preserved to maintain the essence of the speakers' thoughts, which provide tremendous insight into many areas of study and reflection. In addition to collaboration, there are a wide range of thoughts on business, self-determinism, society, education, and more. There are references to philosophers and other thinkers within the discourse that provide additional avenues to continue your study.

Discourse

 

Hubert Dreyfus
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Highlights include:

  • Author of Artificial Intelligence critique "What Computers Can't Do"
  • Commitment and learning by taking risks
  • Expertise and the steps to achieve it

Robert Frodeman
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Highlights include:

  • Philosopher bureaucrats combat myopic visions of large organizations
  • Post-modernity Eros run amok
  • Real interdisciplinary coproduction of knowledge

Charles Leadbeater
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Highlights include:

  • Practical, vocational, creative, productive education
  • Elements of open collaboration
  • Crises of economic and personal development

Cameron Neylon
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Highlights include:

  • Proponent of open science publishing model
  • Keys to successful online collaboration
  • Contributions to the 'unreasonable power of data'

Cameron Neylon - 2 Years Later
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Highlights include:

  • Questioning Silicon Valley technological determinism
  • Limitations of consensus systems
  • Abstract the institution up to a higher level

Morten Ostergaard
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Highlights include:

  • Social innovation and new forms of organization
  • Developing a new generation of researcher collaboration
  • Innovative ways of teaching produces innovative graduates

Paul Rabinow
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Highlights include:

  • Build adjacent collaboratories because power relations are unequal
  • There's a price for access to the truth, the good, the beautiful
  • Corporations have dynamism and creativity, new modes of control and surveillance

Howard Rheingold
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Highlights include:

  • What the future of our species depends on
  • The shape and dynamics of a network influence its nodes
  • Genius of the network and genius of the individual co-evolve

Matthew Senate
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Highlights include:

  • Hacking: collaboration in an open participation model
  • The practical realities about how the human mind and software work
  • Knowledge is a filter on information

Elizabeth Stark
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Highlights include:

  • Online communities as platforms to enable people to take action
  • Technologies/industries should create more value than they capture
  • Disrupting the learning space outside of the traditional institutions

Douglas Thomas - Part 1
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Highlights include:

  • "Scary Mary" - Mary Poppins recut into a trailer as a horror film
  • Overcoming the fragmented worldview and postmodern condition
  • Play: the application of rules or constraints to the imagination

Douglas Thomas - Part 2
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Highlights include:

  • Education is transforming from the right answer to the right question
  • Collaboration is being the best in the context that matters most
  • People wrestling with the same questions for thousands of years

Terry Winograd
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Highlights include:

  • Climbing a tree to get to the moon
  • Not everything can be reduced to rational symbolic structures
  • The phenomenological perspective is about questions