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We frequently hear how bad billions of people are for the planet, for each other, etc. Hardly ever mentioned is the good that can come of having many people, especially when they are collaborating. 

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> So bountiful hath been the earth and so securely have we drawn from it our substance, that we have taken it all for granted as if it were only a gift, and with little care or conscious thought of the consequences of our use of it; nor have we very much considered the essential relation that we bear to it as living parts in the vast creation. It is good to think of ourselves -- of this teeming, tense, and aspiring human race -- as a helpful and contributing part in the plan of a cosmos, and as participators in some far-reaching destiny.  -- Bailey, L. H. (1915). The holy earth. 

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> A new way of solving large, complex problems has become possible in just the last decade or so. Examples like Wikipedia and Linux illustrate how the work of thousands of people can be combined in ways that would have been impossible only a few years ago.

> Many important decision-making problems in the real world are so-called "wicked problems" -- problems for which no single computational formulation of the problem is sufficient, for which different stakeholders do not even agree on what the problem really is, and for which there are no right or wrong answers, only answers that are better or worse from different points of view. For example, most social problems (including the environment, health care, poverty, education, and crime) are wicked in this sense ...

> Radically open modeling makes it possible for end-users to leverage the expertise of many different model developers, and we rely upon a vibrant modeling and simulation community to provide the embedded technology. Expert-mediated voting is critically dependent upon the energy and willingness of experts who volunteer their time.

> We believe the Climate CoLab is representative of a general approach to melding human intelligence and social technology to solve wicked social problems. It is a socio-technical system writ large, that leverages not only the intelligence of thousands of community members, but also the knowledge and capabilities of many pre-existing human systems.  -- Introne, J., Laubacher, R., Olson, G., & Malone, T. (2013). Solving Wicked Social Problems with Socio-computational Systems.

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