Gartner lauds collective intelligence in their report on Hot Technologies With Greatest Potential Impact

Gartner says hot technologies include social-network analysis, collective intelligence, location-aware applications, and event-driven architectures….

Collective intelligence was defined as an approach to developing intellectual content, such as code and documents, through individuals working together with no centralized authority. “This is seen as a more cost-efficient way of producing content, metadata, software and certain services,” Gartner said, adding that the approach is expected to go mainstream in five to 10 years.