I haven't read it but Surowiecki presented at South By Southwest this year (because of the Web 2.0 connection) and I've listened to the podcast of this presentation a couple times while working out. I definitely recommend it and the book's on my list to read.
Judging from that presentation, it sounds as if the book would have probably had a more accurate but less catchy title if he had called it "The Wisdom Of Decision-Making Markets," because what he says in the speech is that it's really about how aggregate decisions, summed from the decisions made by all individuals in a large group of people competing against each other, consistently outperform the decisions of the best-informed experts in those groups. -- Giles Bowkett http://www.gilesgoatboy.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
