Our vision, our thought processes
We benefit from the phenomenon that collectively organised systems are superior to hierarchical systems. We can observe how they work in nature, for example from watching colonies of insects. By constantly exchanging information many small organisms of low intelligence generate a collective intelligence, which is superior to any centralised authority. For example, it is capable of continuing to develop and adjust to new situations. At present we are experiencing this phenomenon in the development of the Internet and its Web 2.0 applications.
In rooms organised according to the principle of collective intelligence and where all electric devices are cross-linked with one another and work as a team, there is greater efficiency, flexibility and convenience. The same applies to buildings in which domestic engineering is no longer organised centrally; instead it is installed distributed over individual rooms, devices and sensors.
Energy networks are collectives involving many major and minor energy producers and energy consumers. If we use the great mass of all energy sources available today and in the future - no matter how small they may be - and network them by means of information technology, in future it will not be a matter of energy production that determines the satisfaction of our energy requirements, but rather energy distribution. Collectively organised systems will solve this perfectly.
We see ourselves as a think tank and as a moderator harnessing the collective intelligence available worldwide for the purpose of pursuing the vision of a sustained living environment that is also in keeping with (our) nature.
