The eternal question can be compressed into three words. Is it crap?
I force myself to ask this when I read paragraphs like this.
About halfway through I think, could Zittrain’s Thought Experiment (ZeeTeeEee(=) be a good band name? I think, anh, it’s too arty even for me. A little after that I think, well, hasn’t human intelligence always been a commodity?
Makes you wonder who the first man was who got paid to be smart, and what he got paid in, and what the hell he was paid to do. If it was a woman, I hope she was a midwife and they rubbed her feet.
With no further excuses, herewith the paragraph.
Crowdsourcing’s power to compartmentalise and abstract away the true meaning of tasks turns human intelligence into a commodity. Zittrain’s thought experiment shows how it could potentially entice people into participating in a project that they otherwise wouldn’t support.
Can you find anything wrong with the foregoing? I mean, this paragraph ignores that the commoditization of human intelligence is a frequent occurrence; has been for millennia as best I can make out. The scale it’s happening on is something new. The article this paragraph was culled from is here.