The Industrial Revolution, starting in the 1700s, marked a period of significant collective intelligence and productivity growth. Factories and machines, combined with innovative organizational methods, increased productivity. For example, the division of labor in a pin factory led to substantial efficiency gains. This era also saw the rise of larger communities, such as the global scientific community, facilitated by evolving information technologies. The world population grew from 600 million to over 7 billion in 300 years, highlighting human dominance over the planet, which now presents its own challenges. These outcomes were not solely due to individual intelligence but the result of collectively intelligent groups of people and their technologies.