P2P文件共用可以大幅提高下載速度，因為它可以有效地避免單一伺服器負載過大的問題。但是，如果文件種子剛剛出現，或者擁有文件的活躍用戶過少，P2P下載的優勢將很難體現出來。一個由卡內基梅隆大學、普度大學和英特爾開發人員組成的研究團隊近日宣稱，他們開發的一項新技術──『Similarity-Enhanced Transfer』(SET)可以打破這一瓶頸，使P2P下載的速度提高30%到70%。
數位落差，亦作數位鴻溝或數位差距，是指社會上不同性別、種族、經濟、居住環境、階級背景的人，接近使用數位產品(如電腦或是網路)的機會與能力上的差異。簡約來說，觀察數位落差可以從接近使用(Access)電腦及網路的機會、以及對於電腦及網路的使用能力(亦可稱之為資訊素養，Information Literacy)這兩大面向來看。
The main research focus of the information dynamics laboratory is on the relation between the local actions and the global behavior of large distributed systems. Areas that we explore are distributed knowledge, social organizations, and novel economic mechanisms.
HP旗下訊息力學實驗室
In The Global Brain Awakens (2000), an update of The Global Brain (1983), Russell's most popular book, he opens with part one on the Gaia Hypothesis. In part two, he discusses orders of evolution going from the evolution of the early universe during the Big Bang, through biological evolution, and finishing with "the emerging social superorganism." In part three, he discusses "inner evolution" and the "high-synergy society".
近代提出集體智慧概念的前衛思想家、生態哲學家、電腦科學家... 提倡"高度協作社會"的範型. 其被譯為中文的著作:《地球腦的覺醒》(The Global Brain Awakens).
One CI pioneer, George Pór, defined the collective intelligence phenomenon as "the capacity of a human community to evolve toward higher order complexity thought, problem-solving and integration through collaboration and innovation. "
集體智慧
