We are a society of seven billion human beings all with the ability to almost instantly connect. In seconds, we can send a text message or start a video chat with a friend on the other side of the ...

In an essay published on the Ars Industrialis website, Jean-François Ballay wonders about the functioning of collective intelligence and the pathologies it might conceal. This notion of collective ...

No matter who we are, we depend on a complex social environment for who we are and become. Individuals are born into a nested series of contexts, from family to friends, education to broad political, ...

Collective understand often differs critically from the facts, an Orwellian problem that is supercharged in this era of fake news. Collective schemas have a top-down effect on individual identity, ...

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The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth, by Jonathan Rauch (Brookings Institution Press, 280 pp., $27.99) As the digital revolution dawned a few decades ago, commentators peddled optimism ...