Complexity, emergence and collective wisdom

We often write here about the development potential of prediction markets, virtual worlds, social software and bottom-up approaches. So I found this crash course on complexity, emergence and collective wisdom fascinating. It lead me to Princeton’s Global Consciousness project (finding global correlations in random data), MIT's Open Mind project (which is trying to teach computers common sense), and the Collective Unconsciousness project (uncovering the connection between dreams across the world). via Kottke.