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...paradigm on this subject equates crowds with mindless mobs (the bigger the mob, the dumber and more dangerous)--think of lemmings or the Gadarene swine that Jesus sent off the cliff. The old paradigm, no doubt elitist and authoritarian, cherishes the brilliant individual (Leonardo da Vinci or Isaac Newton, who reinvented the universe while hiding from the plague in a country house...
...paradigm, as formulated by Surowiecki, states that hoi polloi (the many) are weirdly smart and effective, even when a lot of them, as individuals, are average, or below, in their intelligence or their experience with the subject at hand. Surowiecki's sometimes Panglossian view sees a sort of invisible hand shaping the motions and outcomes of group phenomena...
...more shameless magazine writer would plumb this experience to its metaphoric depths, but I prefer to move on. There are other lessons to discuss apart from knowing one’s limits or coping with disappointment or various notions of failure that may not fit into the Harvard paradigm. But the longer I write about this the more likely it is that I may be asked to pay for damages...
Much has been made of the Howard Dean campaign's knack for online fund raising and MoveOn.org's success in uniting like-minded netizens. But that's just part of a much larger paradigm shift. Real campaign technology is just now booting up. Powerful search tools often honed on vast, private consumer databases are playing increasingly important roles in shaping election strategies. Technology managers have become important campaign advisers, providing precision guidance on how campaign funds should be allocated and what messages might resonate. "Elections are very much like one-day sales," says Dean Phillips, president of Aristotle...
Gross said he looked to Social Studies 10 as a possible paradigm for the Harvard College Courses and that a portion of these general education classes would likely be year-long...