theorywatch

Peter Drucker’s grandson, Nova Spivack, is one of the founders of startup Twine, and his expressed aim is to move beyond his grandfather’s concept of the “knowledge worker” towards a more organizational view: that is, to promote collaborative intelligence through use of the semantic web and social networking. His own vision of the optimal result, the “meta-individual,” however, is pretty scary on any number of levels. Fortunately, Twine itself doesn’t seem to be taking off very well, so perhaps we still have some time before we’re not just bowing before our corporate robot overlords, but becoming them….