How can hundreds to millions contribute to a collective solution when a committee barely works with five people?
The processes by which large numbers of subsystems contribute to an overall solution are still not understood, but some progress is being made. We do know that many self-organizing biological systems regularly demonstrate this level of functionality, from the brain, to social insects, to the global ecological system. And, indeed, we as human in our social evolution demonstrate the same. What remains to be proven is that by using the Net useful solutions can be obtained from large numbers of people in a timely fashion.
