Abstract: 

    This talk makes the case that we are moving from a world driven by evolutionary competition towards altruistic collaboration and describes the steps we can take to get there. We distinguish` between collaborative competition and competitive collaboration: Two soccer teams playing against each other collaborate to compete, while within the team the players compete to collaborate. Today’s society and economy demonstrate more and more examples of competitive collaboration. For example, on the stackoverflow Web site, millions of highly skilled programmers assist novices solving software problems, developing an invaluable resource of programming tricks along the way – all without being paid a dime. Six honest signal of collaboration developed over ten years of research show how everybody can communicate to collaborate in small teams, measuring interpersonal interaction through social networking. They are based on social quantum physics, most prominently entanglement between two people over long distance. Among others, the principles of collaboration are illustrated in healthcare through collaborative chronic care networks (C3N), and by introducing a novel curriculum leveraging Internet-based transactive memory, educating Leonardo’s “renaissance human”.