Social Ingenuity Gap Analysis

The idea of “collaboration” and the ideas present in the book can help solve the technical, technological and social ingenuity gaps. At the beginning of the book, the author explain that they can solve the social ingenuity gap, but the last chapter that we had focused on (which was “Techno-Hubris”), the author mainly discussed issues on the technical and the technological ingenuity gaps. As we looked further in the book, the author give us valid examples of each ingenuity gap that make his views coincide those of the Clay Shirky. The link between these two concepts are that the ingenuity gap would be easier to solve if not only we follow what the author said, but also add in what Shirky said. To start off, Homer-Dixon clearly out lines …show more content…
Primarily, the idea of “have a emergent properties effect on the way we try to understand the world’s natural phenomena” is a concept that we should eliminate if we want to reduce this ingenuity gap because if you divide how we understand the world, we wouldn’t be able to continue that understanding because we would be able to link all the pieces together. “We cannot fully grasp the emergent properties and behaviour of these systems if we only study their component parts in isolation from each other; sometimes we must study the systems a integrated wholes” (Homer-Dixon 256-257). Secondary, the idea of “the rate of scientific discoveries can increase if we reduce the complexity of the particular fields” is explained by the author in a way that would make you think that it would be easier for scientist to discover new ideas if those ideas were simply. But in my opinion, I feel like he is contradicting himself because the author starts of the book by saying that the world is getting to a more complex level where …show more content…
Institutions have a certain amount of people who have to contribute a certain amount in a job. With collaboration, anybody can contribute to a job, and it could be a minimum contribution, but those people still helped, with in the end benefits the whole job because later on, you develop a community where anybody can chip in and help whenever they please. Some examples said in the Ted Talk, was the use of Flicker as a collaboration. When tagged were invented it created a more advanced search on what you want to find via the internet, this made you get a closer look on the searchers that were more relatable to what you wanted. This meant that what ever was posted on Flicker that was tagged with what you were looking for was readable to your broad search. An example not used in the Ted Talk but also relatable to this is Instagram. When you post a picture, you can place as many hashtags as you want because it would be easier for others to find your picture if they search for a hashtag that you mentioned. I feel like Instagram is the new modern Flicker that everyone uses to try to stay connect with one another through social