"Emergence"

What I think is most interesting about this segment was the idea of the collective whole and the power for potential. We saw this demonstrated with Sir Francis Galton and the ox-weighing contest, in which a large group of sort of low-brow, average citizens each took guesses at how much an ox weighed. When Galton added the averages together, he found that it was only one number off from the actual amount. And this surprised Galton, who was quite the elitist and went on to be known as the father of eugenics, or the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species or a human population,especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics)  or encouraging reproduction  by persons presumed to have inheritable desirable traits (positive eugenics) (definition taken from dictionary.com). Galton's findings went against everything he knew because these people who individually may not have been the brightest bulbs in the box, so to speak, were collectively much more intelligent. We also see this same type of collective power with the Internet and what allowed Google to become the search engine giant it is today. This was done by linking, in which those pages that had more people pointing to them had more positive endorsement, and therefore more highly valued. And I just think this really encompasses the whole idea behind the saying "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."