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The speaker exemplifies this approach through a recent experiment conducted at 1871, a prominent tech incubator. During the pandemic's aftermath, they posed a question: What should the community do to shape a post-COVID future?
Method: Community members submitted ideas anonymously.
Outcome: An algorithm evaluated these ideas, selecting the top suggestions without hierarchy or bias.
Results:
The top five winners represented diverse backgrounds—students, mentors, founders, investors.
Even the speaker’s own idea was ranked near the bottom, illustrating a truly democratic process.
This experiment demonstrated that collective decision-making could be harnessed effectively, creating a shared “brain" that taps into the wisdom of the crowd.