Humanity

This week Kenya has been hosting the Internet Governance Forum under the main theme, ”Internet as a catalyst for change: access, development, freedoms and innovation“. Well, yesterday Nairobi’s Innovation Hub hosted one of the “Fathers of the Internet”, Vinton G. Cerf for a session dubbed “Synergestic Communities” as well as a Fireside Chat. Vint and Bob Kahn co-designed the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. Vint is a thought leader on Internet related matters and is currently Google’s Chief Internet Evangelist.

America's politics and religion are increasingly susceptible to biased journalism. This epidemic of misinformation is perhaps best demonstrated by the rise of Fox News, an organization that has garnered substantial ratings while discarding journalistic ethics in order to spread a hardline conservative and religious agenda.

Futurists may be regarded ethical as far as their conducts are in conformity with the standards of professional moralities, but how do they define their professional ethics and to what extent do they remain really faithful to those ethics?

Researchers are discovering that only 50% of IQ is based on genetics. Environment determines the remaining half. Neurologists and other scientists are also pinpointing the myriad factors that elevate or decimate intelligence. PubMed.gov—the website of the USA’s National Institutes of Health and National Library of Medicine—lists 12,708 research studies that analyzed what makes us stupid or smart. Soon, I believe, we will be utilizing this data at home, in schools, and via government sanctions and support.

If we consider "thinking" as a cognitive process dealing with awareness, attention and process of factual, emotive and conative types of information, then we may characterize "collective thinking" (CT) as an interrelated cognitive process of such functions occurring among several individuals.