Collaborative Intelligence

CHAPTER 7Establish Clear Norms of Conduct

Something’s up in Boston. In a few weeks, the World Ecumenical Council will host a conference at which several extremely high-profile religious leaders from around the world will give addresses. The Rockwell Front, a fringe neo-Nazi group named after George Lincoln Rockwell, has issued a credible threat that it will do something highly dramatic to disrupt the conference. Meanwhile, a vial of the deadly hantavirus, which compromises the respiratory system and can cause renal failure, has been stolen from a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There are reasons to believe that members of the Rockwell Front may have been involved in the theft.

Various data have become available ...