"Suppose that you somehow developed an intuitive conviction that emergent computer and communication technology brings with it the possibility of significantly boosting the Collective IQ of human organizations and institutions.

For decades now, I have believed this -- and further, that significantly boosting our collective IQ should be one of mankind's front-runner grand challenges.

The organization -- or community, or institution, or country -- that most effectively pursues such a goal will gain critically significant advantage for its future well being, if not for its survival.

My own long-term, serious attachment to this goal has led to many distinct differences between me and most of the rest of the computer-oriented world in the way we think of many of the elements associated with this challenge -- and of the features of the computer systems we've built."