Every problem solved by a computer is a problem processed and solved by a computer and humans. When designing the solution for the problem one should know which parts of the solution will be solved by humans and which part by the computer. It is in the interest of a commercial software company to push as many jobs on the computer as possible. They expect humans to pay for the solution. Humans expect a value for money.

There are domains of problems where humans are much better than computers. Domains like: pattern recognition, understanding semantics, recognizing context and relevancy, collaboration with other humans, making summaries ... In these domains it is better to involve humans than to give these problems to computers.

Computers are good at counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Very interesting things could be done when a lot of humans would collaboratively process the world while computers count, add, subtract, multiply, and divide the result of their collaboration.

During the 52-hour-lab, within workshops and individual skill-sharing, we made rules and questioned the trust of setting up the protocol of looking for the answers on questions like: What is smart? What is stupid? What is the format? What is the flow? What is the trust? What are the rules?

Photos by Frank Kleinbach