The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.