Bitcoin’s own website says “Bitcoin allows exciting uses that could not be covered by any previous payment system.” That’s certainly coming true, it is now often associated with cyber-criminals and drug dealers, and to be honest that association isn’t entirely...
Crowdsourcing is a great tool for solving problems, but just like any other tool–it doesn’t solve everything. As the saying goes, when all you’ve got is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail. Crowdsourcing will never be the one-all solve-all...
One of the earliest scientific understandings of the crowd came from the brilliant Francis Galton. According to his Wikipedia entry Galton was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, Geographer, inventor, meteorologist,...