The Possible Intelligence of the 21st Century

Authors

  • Pierre Lévy University of Ottawa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2007.33.3429

Keywords:

Cyberspace, Philosophy, Digital memory

Abstract

The author thinks that one of the main problems that faces intellectuals of the 21st century is that of finding the best ways of exploring the service of collective intelligence as well as the development of this huge common memory and this new analysis power of analysis simulation of- fered by an automatic calculation. “It is a new problem, the one of the possible intelligence, that was not faced by other generations that came before ours”, writes Lévy. 

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Pierre Lévy, University of Ottawa

Lévy is a recognized researcher of intelligence technologies and investigates the interactions between information and society. Master of Science in History and Ph.D. in Communication and Sociology and Information Sciences from the University of Sorbonne, is one of the most important advocates of computer use, especially the internet, for the expansion and ademocratization of human knowledge. His vocation for research came during a course with the French philosopher Michel Serres, and his focus of study focused on the area of cybernetics and artificial intelligence. In 1987, he released his first book, The Machine Universe - Creation, Cognition and Computer Culture. He is also the author of Collective Intelligence, What is Virtual? And Cyberculture. He became known worldwide from 1994 with the diffusion of his thesis on the "tree of knowledge", a system created together with Michel Authier that is composed of cartography software and the exchange of knowledge between communities, generating a virtual encyclopaedia in He is currently Professor of Collective Intelligence at the University of Ottawa.

Downloads

Published

2008-04-14

How to Cite

Lévy, P. (2008). The Possible Intelligence of the 21st Century. Revista FAMECOS, 14(33), 13–20. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2007.33.3429

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 33 (2007)

Section

Intellectuals and new technologies

License

Copyright

The submission of originals to Revista Famecos implies the transfer by the authors of the right for publication. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication. If the authors wish to include the same data into another publication, they must cite Revista Famecos as the site of original publication.

Creative Commons License

Except where otherwise specified, material published in this journal is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which allows unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original publication is correctly cited.