New Android app Warmly, from the Seattle-based Chaos Collective, thinks it might be better if an app wakes you up with gradually mounting sounds that not only aren't alien and frightening, but are actually comforting and familiar.
Visual System, a French digital media collective, thinks that the rise of a Super Machine an all-seeing, all-knowing embodiment of Singularity could be inevitable, not unlike the histrionic imaginings of sci-fi films like Transcendence.
I cannot recognise Milburn's charge of collective "group think" among the Guardian and the Daily Mail.
In fact, Ellroy himself concedes, when speaking of his latest love, that "our collective friends think we'll flame out".
Crowd-sourcing the use of online to mobilise large groups of people towards collective action (think the Obama fund-raising success) will grow.
Sure, these types of crowds have atypically extreme forms of human collective motion (think: mosh pits), but given the political climate, it's better to be aware of the possibilities than go in blind.
By rejecting Bill's characterization of Islam as an outright plague, Ben urges us to value the individuals over the collective, to think of those children before we condemn their parents.
I asked Harwell to describe his college days with McBride and various members of the ambitious collective: "I think I met Danny at a really lame orientation thing on the first day [at NCSA], where we were put in a small group.
Author Charles Leadbeater argued that I Love Bees was an example of "We-Think" collective thinking; Leadbeater noted that after the "puppet masters" began the game, I Love Bees "displayed all the characteristics of a mass movement, propelled into existence in a matter of weeks simply by collective enthusiasm guided by a few cyberspace 'avatars'".
In one case, the chairperson disagreed with the anticipated decision of their REC (informed consent for data collection from a collective); he thought that no informed consent was needed.
