Web 2.0, collective intelligence, and the future of learning

Yesterday in the “Blogtropolis” room at Web 2.0 Expo, Chris Heuer signaled me to take a seat in the director’s chair alongside his for a chat.

Here’s a podcast of our chat. We spent twenty minutes talking about building on-line communities, enterprise 2.0, coping with mind-blowing change, the relationship with informal learning, un-meetings, redefining the meaning of conference, and what I plan to discuss with corporate clients in the next two months.

The divide separating the old way of looking at the world and the new, networked vision is so wide that, like the issue of abortion, you’re on one side or the other; no one’s in between, and you’re not going to change the way someone else sees it.

You either believe the net changes everything or you think it’s a passing fad. You believe augmenting humankind’s collective intelligence will change the world forever or you consider this virtual stuff bunk. If you’re one of the people on the side of tradition, my advice is to skip this recording altogether. You’ll think we’re raving mad.

2 comments ↓

#1 Trish on 04.26.08 at 4:38 pm

I found this very interesting,i am getting a better insight on how the internet works, Thankyou

#2 buthaina on 05.05.08 at 7:57 am

Thanks, Jay for sharing the recording. It’s very inspiring for a presentation I’m preparing on integrating work and learning through the use of web 2.0 for a group of EFL teachers in one of the GCC states. Thanks, again :)

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