Collective Intelligence Platforms:
Description: Digital platforms like social media (e.g., X), collaborative tools (e.g., Wikipedia, GitHub), and citizen science projects aggregate human intelligence into shared systems, creating a proto-noosphere.
Progress:
X’s ~600 million monthly active users (2023 estimate) facilitate real-time global discourse, with sentiment analysis revealing collective emotional trends.
Projects like Foldit or Zooniverse leverage crowdsourcing for scientific discovery, solving problems like protein folding or galaxy classification.
Metrics: Indicators include user participation rates, data contribution volume (e.g., Wikipedia’s 6.7 million articles), and network connectivity (e.g., average connections per user).