by Filipe Martins

Created on: April 22, 2009   Last Updated: April 24, 2009

Nobody has to know everything, but everyone knows something. The potential for digital media connectivity between people, creating procedures collective intelligence, where individuals are complementary and create a synergy between them, making all the skills, knowledge and life experiences into wisdom for community.

The Web functions as a living encyclopedia, in which the speed of production of new knowledge is fantastic and finally that the cyberspace is beginning to offer in what was its original promise: a food collective intelligence of all the connection the world's information.

Each person owns a part of the knowledge and the Internet is the means of interconnection. Therefore it is common, like when some particular issue, surveyed the digital communities and collaborative networks, which are nothing more than people with common interests, gathered on the web, dealing directly with that issue on a daily, discussing the subject on which they have knowledge. These communities function as a human filter, such as aid to intelligent information overload.

A virtual community organizations is a tool without parameters in terms of distributed knowledge, capacity for action, power cooperative and collaborative genuine collaboration and spontaneous assumes the role of ensuring the impartiality of the reviews above that, to some extent, increases the credibility of the resulting discussions and addressed various visions on the same topic.

The most important is that within the virtual communities, independence is the key factor. As there is no single consensus among the various reported thoughts, who consulted widely held by the discussion group can form their own opinion, with basement and co-relationship of various aspects of the matter discussed.

The digital medium allows the storage, search and dissemination of knowledge, quickly and cheaply, without any previous similar. The virtual communities are like a warehouse of ideas, views, exchange experiences and knowledge, which together form the collective intelligence of humanity.

The more you train your mind, the better you will be at complex tasks and more able you will be to the brain challenges. Some computer games can give you a great had doing this. The more you play those games, the faster your mind will be but games alone are not enough. you need to train everyday and never quit because improvement will always come soon or later.

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