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Rationally Speaking #76 - Crowdsourcing and the Wisdom of Crowds
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:50:45
Publish Date: 2012-12-16 15:00:38
Description: What do Linux, Netflix, and the Oxford English Dictionary have in common? They've all benefited from the power of crowdsourcing, in which a task is outsourced to a group of hundreds or thousands of disparate people. In this episode of Rationally Speaking, Julia and Massimo discuss the phenomena of crowdsourcing, and ask: What makes it work? Is it ever unethical? And what are the limits to the wisdom of crowds?
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