Bringing your Analogue past into our Digital future

A single individual can achieve a lot, however throughout engineering and design I hear again and again the rule to 'keep it simple' this makes sense as we find it hard to comprehend and manipulate complex systems. Imagine if we could go beyond our individual boundaries beyond team work.

The Hive aims to achieve this. The Hive will be an online program to bring together people to solve complex problems and design complex systems. It will bring together knowledge sharing, intelligence sharing and shared computing. People working on a project will be able to add their own individual ideas and views on a community forum and search through the combined knowledge on a project. The real power of the Hive is the ability for the community to directly manipulate the final design or solution. Imagine an interface with a window filled with code imagine that code constantly updating in real time being manipulated by hundreds of coders, imagine a 3d CAD model in the window constantly growing and changing as new ideas are added and new solutions arrive.

You may think this would just create a huge mess but with enough contributors mess would quickly disappear, if one coder made a mistake another would very soon come along to fix it. The system would constantly save and test the code to see if it was working reporting back its findings to the community to help them to improve the code. this constant testing would be carried out by the communities own computers giving the projects the equivalent power of a super computer to work with.

Creating a complex Hive design system is a complex system in itself and as such may take a long time to develop with no guarantee the final system will work. However with your help I believe we can start the development of the Hive now and build an exceptionally great design system.

Just imagine building an operating system in a week using a thousand people who don't know how to code and operating system. The possibilities for the uses of the Hive are huge.

(please feel free to add new ideas and promote discussion about this.)