Building Bridges Across Information Tools to Facilitate Collective Understanding

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We all have a shared understanding of Google and Wikipedia, but expressing opinions is difficult. Wikipedia follows a neutral point of view, which limits personal beliefs. Different tools like The Brain, Rome researches, and graph is exist for sharing ideas, but how do we communicate across these tools? The goal is to create a shared memory where we can tell stories about our beliefs and others can build upon them. With this in mind, the open global mind community was started to foster open-mindedness and trust.

Jerry Michalski helps organizations become more trustworthy by exploring their language, processes, and intentions. That’s fascinating in itself — but I wanted to talk with him primarily because he curates an online resource called Jerry’s Brain, a deep repository of interconnected thoughts. He’s worked on Jerry’s Brain for a quarter of a century, longer than any other such experiment I’m aware of. So, I wanted to find out why and how he does this.

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