Collective intelligence : mankinds emerging world in cyberspace The number of travelers along the information superhighway is increasing at a rate of ten percent a month. How will this communications revolution affect our culture and society Though awed by their potential weve feared computers as agents of the further alienation of modern man: they take away our jobs minimize direct human contact even shake our faith in the unique power of the human brain. Pierre Levy believes however that rather than creating a society where machines rule man the technology of cyberspace will have a humanizing influence on us and foster the emergence of a collective intelligence a meeting of minds on the Internet that will validate the contributions of the individual