The idea of how you actually get standards to work and people to agree on things. He came up with this idea, which you are about to see the result of. I went home, and it kind of cooked. I give Ken the credit of what came out good in this and take the blame for the more bizarre aspects of what I am going to suggest. I have seen it work, it works, and it s a wonderful thing.
Groups of people can come together and come up with things that are beyond one person.
Doug has pointed out in this colloquium that we have a number of problems. We are going to use collective IQ to solve this problem. I believe that is true and it has an effect on all of us. Solutions that have been proposed revolve around the idea of better information. I think that better information is necessary, but I would like to start with my observations about that.