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The Wisdom of the Crowd

The idea was to let an online audience direct a team of experts to solve mysteries and then harnessing the wisdom of the crowd. Back in the late 90s early 2000s the greatest civilization in the western hemisphere where the Maya they developed very complex system of writing were suddenly gone. The Mesopotamians had a similar sort of cultural societal collapse for all those reasons as well like a couple of bad harvests some climate change income inequality or like wealth disparity. It seems climatic event is always the straw that breaks the camel's back which I think is particularly relevant for today you know in our go climate change goes along with it.

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