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Crowdsource Win

Riley Crane
PopTech, 2010
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Humans have used crowdsourcing to solve problems since antiquity, but until recently, crowdsourcing’s capacity has been limited. Through engaging anecdotes, physicist Riley Crane relays how new communications paradigms can empower humanity to crack complex conundrums. getAbstract believes Crane’s presentation will inspire coders and laypeople alike to employ the power of the Internet to find answers to the world’s most intractable issues.

Take-Aways

  • Crowdsourcing is an ancient tool. Today, Google, Pandora, Netflix and countless other services rely on crowd input to improve their offerings for all users.
  • Alas, none of these crowdsourcing approaches are capable of solving problems that require “coordination or collaboration.”
  • Happily, communication paradigms are shifting. Nascent social media have proven their capacity to solve profoundly difficult problems via crowdsourcing.

About the Speaker

Physicist Riley Crane is an engineering director at Path, a software firm. He formerly worked at MIT’s Media Lab.

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