If You Look At History,

This Is Not The Wisdom Of The Crowd, But The Wisdom Of Someone In The Crowd. It’s Not That The Network Itself Is Smart; It’s That The Individuals Get Smarter Because They’re Connected To The Network.

How Could So Many Intelligent People Be So Grievously Wrong For Such An Extended Period Of Time? How Could They Ignore So Much Overwhelming Evidence That Contradicted Their Most Basic Theories? These Questions, Too, Deserve Their Own Discipline: The Sociology Of Error.

Legendary Innovators Like Franklin, Snow, And Darwin All Possess Some Common Intellectual Qualities—a Certain Quickness Of Mind, Unbounded Curiosity—but They Also Share One Other Defining Attribute. They Have A Lot Of Hobbies.

That Strange New Zone Between Medium And Message. That Zone We Call The Interface.

Being Right Keeps You In Place, Being Wrong Forces You To Explore.