I love you comments; “In my experience, if a person or group of people become known for having interesting and deep discussions, they can pick far more followers than just a single author may generate” and “Decent conversations are rare on the Internet, so rare that people are starved for decency and deep insights” I really believe this to be the truth.. Is it the element of accomplishment? Is it the insight? If what you say is true then why isn’t is being leveraged to our advantage? This is my frustration. I don’t believe we are walking through the all the new doors technology has opened for us. Contrast all this to the propaganda/news sites that have shut down their comments section in the last year or so. Why? I believe this was a fatal mistake for them going forward. All of this supports my thesis that we live in a world dominated by individual intelligence. What I am trying to get this author above to understand is that a collective intelligence would be everything you said on steroids.