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Zack Lynch is author of The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World (St. Martin's Press, July 2009).
He is the founder and executive director of the Neurotechnology Industry Organization (NIO) and co-founder of NeuroInsights. He serves on the advisory boards of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Center for Neuroeconomic Studies, Science Progress, and SocialText, a social software company. Please send newsworthy items or feedback - to Zack Lynch.
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August 4, 2004

NeuroWiki, Really.

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NeuroWiki is yet another example of how wikis are transforming how humans collaborate and share information. Wikis are being used for everything, including: music, gmail, business and education.

While wikipedia is perhaps the best public example of their potential, many don't find them user friendly enough. But as Socialtext's Adina Levin shares, "wikis confuse people because they are designed to be revised."

At the end of the day, the important component to the success of any wiki is "gardening". Just like leaf cutter ants must tend to their coevolving fungi gardens in order to survive, humans need to prune our information gardens. In the case of neurowiki, I would advise an ox-drawn plow or two. Remember, there is a fungus among us.

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