Thinking Differently with Rod Collins Rod Collins

As new technological innovations, such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence move us further into the Digital Age, we will come to a digital fork in the road. Which path we choose will likely make the difference between whether we create unhealthy surveillance states or highly evolved human networks that promote both healthy individuals and healthy societies.
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As the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence become an ever present reality in our day-to-day lives, we will be faced with an existential choice about how we organize our societies that may very well determine whether we will live in the most authoritarian centralized social structures the world has ever known or whether we create a highly evolved human society by embracing a very different way to design how we socially organize ourselves.
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NTSB teams don’t filter data to fit their theories; they adapt their theories to fit the facts. They understand that the laws of physics have no regard for the egos and the opinions of experts overly invested in their own thinking. This understanding could greatly improve our social discourse if Big Tech could learn to adopt the mindset of the NTSB.
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Today’s business leaders face a daunting and unprecedented challenge: The world is changing much faster than their organizations. If business leaders want their companies to survive and, more importantly, thrive in a fast forward world, they will need the courage to adopt new habits based on radically new ways of thinking and acting.
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Rules are important because they serve as guideposts for reliable social interaction. Rules are practical tools for maintaining order in complex societies. But there are times where the rules should be superseded by a higher principle, especially when you are reasonably sure that it’s the right thing to do and where there’s a clear principle at stake that would be harmed if the rule was followed.
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What if the tech companies redesigned their algorithms to identify what’s most important to differing perspectives by honoring the principle that all voices matter, hearing all points of view without prejudice, and integrating the best elements of all perspectives into innovative breakthrough solutions that could move us beyond our differences? Social media companies have the opportunity, through their digital social platforms, to curate our collective intelligence to produce higher order solutions that no one perspective could ever craft.
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