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• A reply on Conversation: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease vs re-engineer humans to support disease

  Jan 23 2013: Some problems threat our existence. For the malaria case we have to do something in order to reduce the huge numbers of deaths. We could stay still and wait for evolution to design a cure. We can also speed-up evolution by "manipulating" ourselves. I don't understand what you mean by our perspective. And what do you mean by solve themselves?
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  A reply on Conversation: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease vs re-engineer humans to support disease

  Jan 23 2013: We can. ¿should we? is the question

• A reply on Conversation: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease vs re-engineer humans to support disease

  Jan 23 2013: I totally agree.

• A reply on Conversation: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease vs re-engineer humans to support disease

  Jan 23 2013: It is not the same thing. We are becoming god-like with our ability to control and soon design synthetic creatures. But we have to be responsible. Manipulating the planet is playing god, There are other species that should not have to suffer our bad decisions. We should embrace bio-diversity and let nature's wisdom---evolution---do what it knows.

• A reply on Conversation: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease vs re-engineer humans to support disease

  Jan 23 2013: I agree there will always be threats. My position is to learn to leave with them instead of eliminating them. By killing every threat we become weak (less strong)

• A reply on Conversation: What makes a crowd-sourced (collaboration) project successful?

  May 6 2012: That is a beautiful example. I hope we all followed. Do you have some reference? I was looking for a nice report, news or something to help me explain it on a class. thanks

• A reply on Conversation: What makes a crowd-sourced (collaboration) project successful?

  May 6 2012: You also have to design a mechanism for control. In the case of reviews for example. You trust the people into adding the review of your products, but there might be a troll that just wants to be funny and screws your review system. Hence you need the report Spam feature, right?

• A reply on Conversation: What makes a crowd-sourced (collaboration) project successful?

  May 6 2012: Thanks.
  My friend asked me to help her by teaching a class next Tuesday. I'm working on the presentation which is full of examples. I started this conversation in order to help me organize my ideas.
  The presentation has many examples and I was missing the key points and a call to action. I want them to leave class with some simple rules of thumb or a nice summary of what makes it work.
  I appreciate your contributions, they have helped me organize the ideas.
  Any other comments or suggestions will be useful.

• A reply on Conversation: What makes a crowd-sourced (collaboration) project successful?

  May 6 2012: Thanks, I'll read that. I started reading Yochai's book on the wealth of networks, never finished though. I should.
  Thanks for the paper. I already downloaded it.

• A reply on Conversation: What makes a crowd-sourced (collaboration) project successful?

  May 6 2012: Thanks. This is what I'm looking for. It only rises more questions.
  There is the marketing, there is the vision or goal, and there is the free labour for which you have to establish the right conditions so that it "self-organizes". This is made by giving short term goals which have to be aligned towards the goal for the system to flow. And they should be added in a modular fashion.
  How do you keep the free-labour inside? There is some recognition and reputation involved. So you need some gamification? i.e. rankings, prices. money.
  How do you control? You have to monitor and you have to give some feedback so that the system doesn't go towards sommewhere else. Is this done by making each task small and simple enough?