Rather than maintaining multiple copies of a document and sharing ideas by e-mail, a wiki allows members of a team to pool their thoughts more easily.
Like the capacity of human society itself to act, in Dawkins's terms, as a kind of gene pool for thoughts and belief, we are today the conscious agents of our own delight and distraction in a way never previously possible.
(212-924-0077) DANSPACE PROJEREMYJEREMY NELSON AND LUIS LARA The choreographers Jeremy Nelson and Luis Lara have created different dances with the same set and costumes to examine ways individuals use ideas from the increasingly large common pool of thought in this technologically expansive age.
Little did he know that his term would become one of the most iconic of online phenomena, embodying the capacity of the internet to itself act as a kind of gene-pool for thoughts and beliefs – and for infectious, endlessly ingenious slices of time-wasting.
It is a fight everyone has an opinion on and BBC Sport has pooled the thoughts of boxers past and present, including some of the sport's greatest names.
"There's kind of three or four pools of thought out there," he acknowledged.
From a vast pool of possible thoughts, theories and trends, we have selected 97.
"I just think that Cricket is so attractive," my mother had said to me during my first summer back, as I, in makeshift maternity garb, gazed listlessly at a crisp and boxy woman in pimento Bermuda shorts and a Lanz flower-print blouse, standing by the country-club swimming pool, deep in thought.
Like everyone who cons themselves into attending a liberal arts college, I was captivated by the idea of changing the world by immersing myself in a diverse pool of academic thought, theory, and action.
Ron Finley was home by the pool recently when his thoughts once again turned to dirt.
