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""Collective intelligence" refers to the myriad emerging ways that populations are putting together their individual brainpower and computing power via online networks to uncover and aggregate knowledge; crowdsourcing is a technique that is used for many other purposes as well, using computers and networks to divide tasks into small pieces and portioning out the work to large numbers of people. The hybrid of communicated collaboration and crowdsourcing, only a few years old, has produced prodigious results in diverse fields. Wikipedia is proof of the claim that networked, computer-equipped individuals can aggregate knowledge as a collective, voluntary enterprise. In China, they are known as "human flesh search engines" — online groups that divide the labor of sleuthing information among thousands of volunteers.61  "

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