What Would Plato Think of Crowdsourcing?

Philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex: Why Phil[image error]osophy Won’t Go Away, on what Plato would think of technology today.

If Plato were to come back today I think he would have a lot to say about so many things but crowdsourcing would be of great interest to him. I take Plato to the Googleplex and he’s very, very interested in our technology. And that would appeal to him very much. But he gets into a conversation at the Googleplex with a software engineer on crowdsourci...