WikiZombie
Apr 06
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks is one of my favourite books. It is one of the rare books that I have returned to a few times (this is an odd collection of books that includes Timothy Taylor’s Stanley Park) primarily for the geo-political speculation. I wrote a short review of the book for the library site Cover to Cover.
The Wikinomics blog has an interesting posting that ties in crowd sourcing and the World War Z:
The lesson for me is that succeeding with wikinomics takes much more than just simply connecting people. A crowd can be “smart”, or it can be a mindless mob too.
This is in reference to the Zombie hoards …
Crowds, even when highly connected via digital technology, do not automatically become smarter. In fact, as Mackay observed, sometimes they become mad and delusional too. The difference is less about the process of magically connecting people, but more about the architecture for connecting them. HOW people are connected, seems to make the difference between wisdom and madness… call it appropriate collaborative architecture.
See, even Zombies are a part of the digital revolution!