[washappy]

And, to an extend, I sympathize with the viewpoints of the singularity adherents.

Collective intelligence is a version of Conway's Game of Life, with more complicated rules. It is possible to manipulate the canvas and the rules each cells makes, resulting in the canvas dying (information explosion/implosion). It is possible to make a program that transforms the canvas into a single glider (singularity). Both would obviously be very bad for humans.

When earth faces a physical meteor, we have the science to detect it, track it and predict its future path. But what to do when we face an information meteor? The article states that Shannon's paper was the biggest contribution to information theory, but it seems to me we still have a long way to go on information theory. And we haven't seen the Einsteins and Manhattan projects yet, that physics has seen.