Richard Bartlett - Occupy Wall Street as Bootstrapping Collective Intelligence
Oct 18, 2018
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Richard Dennis Bartlett, founder of Loomio, reflects on Occupy Wall Street as a bootstrapped collective intelligence. They discuss vTaiwan movement, combining social and digital technologies for robust collective intelligence, and the power of creative solutions. They explore connections between blockchain and Occupy, emergence of new collective intelligence, and the idea of outcompeting capitalism through metamodernism.
Occupy Wall Street exemplifies a bootstrapped collective intelligence movement, sparking personal growth and a sense of optimism.
The Sunflower Movement in Taiwan showcased the power of deliberative democracy and the significance of social and technological architectures in collective intelligence.
The integration of social technologies, facilitation techniques, and evolving digital technologies can create transformative, participatory systems and drive social change.
Deep dives
Occupy Wall Street as a Bootstrapped Collective Intelligence
Occupy Wall Street is discussed as a potential example of a bootstrapped collective intelligence movement. The movement is seen as transformative, leading to personal growth and a sense of optimism. Participants in Occupy Wall Street believed in the power of leaderless movements and the potential for robust expressions of collective intelligence. The experience of being part of Occupy Wall Street brought about a new level of empathy and collective understanding, sparking an intense period of personal growth.
V Taiwan: Deliberative Democracy in Action
The Sunflower Movement, also known as V Taiwan, in 2014 in Taiwan, demonstrated the possibilities of deliberative democracy for the 21st century. The movement occupied the national government's legislative buildings for three weeks and showcased how to run a transparent and accessible deliberative democracy process. Utilizing live streams, transcriptions, and translation into multiple languages, the movement engaged citizens in co-writing new laws and shifting the political status quo. V Taiwan emphasized the importance of facilitation, political strategy, and the involvement of all stakeholders, showcasing the significance of social and technological architectures in collective intelligence.
The Future of Collective Intelligence
The narrative of collective intelligence and the belief in its potential for large-scale social transformation offers confidence and optimism for the future. Examples such as V Taiwan and the involvement of technology companies like Holochain and DaoStack highlight the evolving landscape of collective intelligence. The integration of social technologies, facilitation techniques, and evolving digital technologies can weave together to create transformative, efficient, and participatory systems. This vision of collective intelligence suggests inevitability and encourages ongoing exploration and innovation in pursuing new ways of governance and decision-making.
The Significance of Occupy as a Collective Intelligence Movement
The speaker reflects on their experience with Occupy and highlights its role as a collective intelligence movement. They describe how the General Assembly and the consensus-based decision-making process embodied collective intelligence, and emphasized the potential of such movements to drive social change. Despite acknowledging that the velocity of progress may have slowed down, they maintain their belief in the power of human intelligence and relationships to create positive transformation.
Technology and the Pursuit of Collective Intelligence
The speaker discusses the relationship between technology and the collective intelligence movement. While acknowledging the potential for technology to support and enhance collective intelligence, they caution against falling into the trap of techno determinism. They argue that the focus should not solely be on technological solutions but also on cultural and personal development. The speaker shares their involvement with Lumio, a software company that originated from Occupy, and emphasizes the importance of combining technology with cultural and personal transformation for collective intelligence to thrive.
In this conversation, I speak with Richard Dennis Bartlett. Richard is an author, organizational consultant, and founder of Loomio and The Hum, as well as a member of Enspiral network. He and I share an identity as former participants in Occupy Wall Street, me in NYC and Richard in New Zealand.
Together we reflect on whether Occupy Wall Street could be seen as a ‘bootstrapped’ collective intelligence, the rise of the vTaiwan movement and digital governance, and the need to leverage both social and digital technology together to create robust expressions of benevolent collective intelligence.
The Hum
https://www.thehum.org/
Enspiral
www.enspiral.com
Loomio
http://loomio.org
Richard on Medium
https://medium.com/@richdecibels
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