Multiplicity was well defined with the phrase “combinational explosion” meaning an explosion of possibilities. The digital world is unfathomably infinite, and due to its immensity content does not adhere to physical scale. An application in the digital world can be as big as a hard drive will allow it.
With a multitude of users using one program we gain “wisdom of crowds” this wisdom encourages diversity, independence, decentralisation and aggregation.
Diversity
Of information and opinion.
Independence
Of thought and opinion
Decentralisation
Of knowing local knowledge
Aggregation
Using this information and making something out of it.
Basically the more people that use an application the more intelligent that system will become.
Take Linux for example. It is an operating system that you do not have to pay for and is generated through user contributions and collaboration. If all of the constructive benefactors had not all partaken in their own unique way’s the system might have been a little flat and not as content rich, but due to its diversity the system is a rival to most of the operating systems that are turning a profit.
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Think you might need to add just a little bit to this post. Or is this a clever play on the concept of multiplicity? Or --heaven forfend-- a transparent attempt at getting a properly-dated post up that you can fill in later. Oh, the duplicity!
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