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The Power of Unpopular: A Guide to Building Your Brand for the Audience Who Will Love You (and why no one else matters) Hardcover – March 27, 2012
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Somewhere along the way, business owners got the idea they had to be popular in order to be successful, when, in fact, the opposite is true. Every successful brand in history—from corporate behemoths to your neighborhood coffee shop—is vastly unpopular with a distinct demographic, yet succeeds wildly with the right audience. Isn't it time to rethink "unpopular"? In The Power of Unpopular, you'll discover what the world's greatest innovators have always known: popular is the last thing you ever want to build a business to be.
Stop focusing your brand-building on groups who will never like you and learn how to identify the audience you want to serve. The Power of Unpopular simply—and bluntly—explains concepts that you can immediately graft onto your existing business strategies:
Discover your brand personality and explore what you gain from taking a stand
Find the people who will benefit from what you have to offer, and then tell them a story that they want to hear
Become an approachable brand that invites conversation and a high level of customer input
Build your community and get your brand shared
Scale your brand in a way that ensures that it will survive its own growth
Understand profitability—in both financial and emotional terms
Featuring real businesses from across the globe, this irreverent guide couples theory with practice, blazing pathways that businesses of any size or age can follow. Becoming unpopular shows you who you are and what you have to offer—and lets you tell all the naysayers to shove it.
Change the way you do business and live your life—become unpopular.
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"Being popular may get you elected to public office, but if you want to be successful in business, you need to understand the power of being unpopular. Erika Napoletano clearly and cleverly lays out the path to unpopularity, a critical new paradigm for business success."
—Carol Roth, Business strategist and New York Times bestselling author of The Entrepreneur Equation
"The dreaded 'unpopular.' Why the hell do we accord it all manner of awfulness? Whoever convinced us that popular = good / unpopular = bad, majority rules, end-of-story anyhow? In business, or in your personal life, it's finding YOUR right people that matters. That's inbound marketing at its best. Figure out whom you serve and what you do for them, and paltry issues like competition basically disappear! When you're unpopular with all of the right people—the ones who don't want, need, or understand what you have to offer—the ones who fall in love with you will eventually show up at your door. In her hilarious, witty, read-out-loud-to-your-friends prose, Erika is that idyllic best friend you can rely on to slap you back into a reality that 'they' never told you about."
—Laura Fitton (@pistachio), Inbound Marketing Evangelist at HubSpot and coauthor of Twitter for Dummies
"A brilliant concept, powerfully delivered. I've already ordered six copies for my closest friends."
—Seth Godin, author of We Are All Weird
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That said - so what? That's Erika's point. Be who you are - know what you do - and do it, and F*&^) anyone who says different. At least, that's how she'd put it.
A lot of the stuff, I already knew - that's why I give the book 3 stars. In my view, she padded out her central idea with a bunch of gunk. But otherwise, she wouldn't have had a book.
The main idea really is NOT the power of UN-popular - that's just a catchy title. It's the power of not being afraid to claim your niche, and be it to such a clear extent that those who are not part of it, might loathe you. It's really the power of knowing who you need to be popular with in order to be successful in your field, and then, expect and WELCOME criticism and attacks from everyone else. If you're not getting attacked, you're probably too bland to really make any difference.
It's a fun and fast read, and may just reboot your approach to your biz. A full 3 stars for that!
You're going to find out how to, on a DEEP level, resonate and connect with the people who mean the most to your business.
But the scary thing is, this will mean the rest don't matter. I know, sounds scary... but if you follow the advice clearly laid out by Erika in this book, it will not be scary any longer.
In fact, you'll love whatever it is you do that much more (and the people who love what you do).
Great book, highly recommended.
*This review is being given after reading an advance copy of the printed version.
Of course, I was looking for the gems, the takeaways, and within the first 64 pages I found enough to apply them to my business. As a full time conference speaker, author and workplace performance advisor (or, is that three full time jobs?!), it is important that clients know what they are getting, when they get me.
If you're an entrepreneur, small-business owner, or freelance solopreneur, I highly recommend you read this book. At least the following pages:
26, 45, 61, 113, 168
Let me share 5 reasons I love this book:
She provides an outline to begin thinking about your popularity - or unpopularity - and what to do to enhance it. Early in the book, her activities, suggestions and stories make it easy to want to read more.
Move. Move toward and move away from plans and ideas. I breathed a big (and I mean BIG) sigh of relief when I realized that Erika isn't preaching AT us, she's simply sharing what she as found through her dozens and dozens of conversations and interviews. Remember, "shift happens."
She offers step-by-step solutions to one of the most interesting business problems I face: "What to do to let potential clients know I exist?" After reading the chapter on "Personality," I reviewed and changed up how I'm reaching out to people that come to our office as referrals. The goal is to engage, and she showed me how.
It's all about trust. I trust Erika to tell her truth. (Even if her truth is not your truth, at least you'll have someone in your hands who's willing to stand up for what she believes in.Read more ›
* The contents is inspiring. Yes, it's repackaged stuff that you can find elsewhere, but it is presented in such a way that makes it relatable, easy to use, and valuable. Isn't that why we buy information?
* The author is genuine. I think this is the book's best selling point. Despite my objections (below), there was something very attractive about the book and I believe that it is the author's sincere desire to help. She gives lots of pertinent examples of what she means and acknowledges a lot of people. It made me feel that this was not an "all about me" book, but one where she truly cares about helping.
* My business is big and unruly. It's been functioning for years, but not as a cohesive whole. This book made me see it differently and tie things more closely together so that even *I* understand it better and like it more. I can't help but think that my potential clients will too.
* Blue language. I think it lacks professionalism. I get that the author is encouraging authenticity, but I think the professional world should still be professional.
* "The Power of Unpopular" is a really bad metaphor. I think that trying to sell people the idea that they should rejoice at being unpopular is a hard sell. There was something nagging at me about what I didn't like about this book and that was it. I have always been one to stick out. Even if you didn't like me, you knew who I was, so I know what it is to have a presence and be popular with a set of people. Still, that packaging is kind of weird.
For those who complain that it's the same old thing, maybe. But sometimes you need to hear the same old thing in a different way for it to click. That's what it's done for me.
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In real speak and often blunt speak, the author encourages businesses often regarded as unpopular to seek ways to stand out, anyway. Yes. Read morePublished 6 months ago by Laura B.
I enjoy reading business books to broaden my view and knowledge. This book was recommended to me and by the reviews, it seemed like an amazing read with tons of new ideas on how to... Read morePublished 12 months ago by swissgirl
In your face, straight talk. If you want some flowery Polly Anna rose colored glasses business advice go somewhere else.Published 19 months ago by Kay Walten
This is an awesome awesome awesome read for entrepreneurs, marketers and brand builders. Truly practical information and knowledge that you can implement immediately. Read morePublished on June 15, 2014 by Charlene L. Sanders
I've been a fan of Erika's style for quite some time and found this book to be yet another swift kick in the a$$ to do the work and build a brand that resonates with the right... Read morePublished on March 9, 2014 by valerie reddemann
Inside the "Power of Un-Popular" you'll find that the idea of un-popular isn't just kitsch and clever marketing, it's an in-your-face guide to what makes your business special and... Read morePublished on November 5, 2013 by Scott Ellis
For me this book was a game changer. When you are out on your own as a consultant, you don't have the luxury of co-worker or team validation for your thoughts and insights. Read morePublished on October 31, 2013 by Shari L. Short
I have been following Erika's blog for. Some time now and finally got around to reading her book. I am sorry I waited so long, the book really wakes you up to how to build a... Read morePublished on October 20, 2013 by Robert Williger


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Kindergarten-Grade 3-Inspired by the successful resistance by the residents of the Trinity Plaza Apartments in San Francisco, author and activist Robles has created a memorable story, supported by Angel's vibrant, hopeful art. In a tribute to Makibaka, the spirit of struggle, young Lakas helps his neighbors stand together to keep their home, the Makibaka Hotel, which the landlord is selling. While specifically honoring Filipino culture and communities, this richly patterned text in both English and Tagalog yields a universal message. As Fernando states, I was afraid before, but not now. We are together, no matter what happens. In this way, we have already won. While the easy, successful resolution might be too simplistic for some readers, the messages-that voices of all people are worthy of being heard and that social change comes with unity-are those that all readers will appreciate. A great read-aloud, the story will also be enjoyed by independent readers, along with Lakas and the Manilatown Fish (Children's Book Press, 2003).-Alexa Sandmann, Kent State University, OH
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Debbie does Philly, not!
Great caricatures Matt and the blues are great touch.
Madame President!
HilLIARy has never looked that good
Regardless of who wins the general, the footnote for history will indicate Hillary was illegally placed as the democratic nominee.
The interference from Schultz through the DNC changed the results of the primary.
Maybe Hillary would have won, maybe Bernie would have won.
The footnote will reflect the preponderance of evidence supports Bernie.
If even I as a democrat cannot accept the primary results, imagine the fuss that will be put up by the opposition.
The republicans have been given a chance to be correct on one single thing this election year, the bogus democratic primary.
Take this away from them with a floor vote with the delegates released from their fraudulent pledges.
I fear you are delusional.
Hoping for fairness is delusional and I admit guilt.
There was no way the DNC was going to do the right thing by this after being caught.
I do not appreciate having President Trump to look forward to, but the DNC was insistent and they are in charge.
"Yes, President Trump, I'll get right on that."
Hillary Clip'em is a madam all right!
Imagine the emails behind the scenes at the rnc. They must have it sealed very tight. The trump/Putin ticket is holding tight. Putin had his way in France with the united front, brexit in England and is well on his way with the idiot drumpf in the United States!
Trump just said he wanted Putin and his henchmen to help hack hillarys emails. We have officially gone down the rabbit hole
There was a roll call vote last night, state-by-state. Was that good enough?
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The Speech of His Life
Following the Ted Cruz non endorsement, Trump must give the speech of his life. So they say.
Lock Her Up
Chris Christie used his time on the RNC podium to prosecute Hillary Clinton. After reciting various moments in her public life he asked, "guilty or not guilty." Then the frenzied crowd responded, "lock her up." Here's a funny replay of the speech from The Onion.
Lock Her Up
Jennifer Rubin in the Washington Post called it "the chant of a banana republic." But Molly Hemingway in The Federalist explains why "calls to lock her up are entirely reasonable."
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The Republican National Convention opened with a floor fight when The Never Trump crowd tried to overthrow the presumptive nominee. They claimed to have gathered enough signatures to change the rules requiring delegates bound to Trump to vote for him. But the signatures never saw the light of day. The protesters lost on a voice vote. Chaos ensued.
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Trump went on to win the nomination last night with 1,725 delegates. He only needed 1,237.
Still, the mission of convention Republicans seems to be to be to sell The Donald – to other Republicans.
I've been spending some time at the RNC in Cleveland. My mission is to produce a daily sketchbook for the Akron Beacon Journal and the Tampa Bay Times. I'll post some of the sketches on Bokbluster along with my regular cartoons.
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Hillary Clinton didn't testify under oath in her three and a half hour interview with the FBI. Director Comey said there was no evidence she was lying. There was no transcript either.
On Monday a federal judge delayed ruling on a deposition of Hillary. The deposition was requested by Judicial Watch as part of its lawsuit against the State Department over her private email server.
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The deaths on live video of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling created a shocking impression, to say the least. How do you draw a cartoon about a snuff film?
I held off because things don't always turn out the way they seem. Learned that from the Michael Brown case in Ferguson. Brown was portrayed by the media as a "gentle giant". Eric Holder's Justice Department found him to be a thug who was shot and killed while attacking a police officer.
"Hands up don't shoot" was a lie but Black Lives Matter ran with it anyway.
The irony is five Dallas police officers died while defending a Black Lives protest march.
" I may not agree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it." – Not just words.
Black Lives
Eugene Robinson explains here why "the racial divide, has its roots in lingering claims of white supremacy."
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"This bill supports a free market method for increasing demand for housing at a time when so many working-class Americans are underwater on their homes, are desperate for prices to rise again, and big-government programs have failed to work," Lee said in a statement.
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Circle Research survey reveals B2B leaders' views on marketing in a B2B environment and priorities for the year ahead
A new survey by Circle Research has revealed that marketing leaders in the UK consider IBM and Salesforce to be the most respected B2B brands in the UK.
The report, developed in association with B2B Marketing, analysed the responses of 100 B2B marketing leaders, all individuals on or reporting directly into their organisation's senior leadership team. Collectively they controlled B2B marketing budgets of £188 million. Key findings of the report include:
- The most respected B2B brands
- The biggest challenges faced in managing a B2B brand
- The current size of B2B marketing budgets
- The attributes of a successful marketing leader
- Current gaps in marketing team skills
It reveals that:
- One in ten name Salesforce as the single B2B brand they most admire. The same proportion name IBM
- 62% spend 3% or less of annual turnover on marketing. 75% say this budget is less than needed
- 42% measure ROI from their marketing activity rarely if at all
- 79% of report that their marketing team has skills gaps - data analytics, customer insight, digital marketing and marketing technology top the list
- 68% say staff too busy to take time out for training and only 26% have structured development plan for all of team
Andrew Dalglish, Director for Circle Research, comments: "The B2B Leaders Report 2013 not only reveals that IBM and Salesforce appear to be head and shoulders above the competition in terms of B2B reputation, but also that marketing leaders are all facing changes to their budgets, particularly in relation to turnover allocated to marketing activities.
"Saleforce's Head of UK Marketing and VP EMEA concur with the report and have revealed that for them reputation is all about brand perception and leading from the front. These guiding principles have clearly placed Salesforce on a pedestal in the eyes of its peers, as the report reveals."
Excerpts from Circle Research's interview with Salesforce on B2B brand building can be found here: http://www.circle-research.com/2014/b2b-brands-respect/. Analysis of the four attributes of a successful B2B marketing leader can be found here: http://www.circle-research.com/2013/getting-top-marketing-tree/.
Please visit http://www.b2bmarketing.net/resources/b2b-leaders-report-2013 to download the full B2B Leaders Report 2013 or contact Circle Research via http://www.circle-research.com for more information.
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Formed in 2006, we combine both qualitative (focus groups, workshops or in depth one-to-one interviews) and quantitative (online survey or CATI telephone interviews) research techniques with statistical analysis in order to deliver an even deeper insight into your business issues. We have done this in more than 100 countries, all to the exacting ISO20252 standard.
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Tarzan's remarkable foresight in vanquishing the Belgian evildoers before the worst of King Leopold II's reign of terror opens the door for his future films, where our hero stops historical catastrophes in their early stages.
However they are achieved, the United States has now embraced extrajudicial executions on foreign soil. And most of the discussion has focused more on the new instrument—drone technology—than on its purpose: assassination.
Whatever the advances of renewable energy, projections suggest fossil fuels will continue to dominate the global landscape for decades to come, accelerating the pace of global warming and ensuring the intensification of climate-change catastrophes.
Only when we see the evidence of our own invasive nature can we begin to become the kind of land we say we want to be.
Donald Trump's going to need the establishment if he's to have a hope of raising the money and organizing the troops effectively enough to be elected. But power brokers don't suffer the slings of "outsider" scorn lightly.
If huge swaths of the world have begun to disintegrate in an era when minority insurgencies and terror outfits are the worst opponents the U.S. faces, consider what chaos could come to regions where a potentially hostile power remains.
It seems a robust Rolodex with the right global roster, a marquee name and a cultivated geopolitical brand covers a multitude of sins. And that's precisely the type of firepower that Petraeus brings to the table.
Nowhere is the process of destabilization more evident than in the Greater Middle East and Africa, in places where it is possible to doubt that civilization will ever return.
Somehow, between 2015 and 2016, more than 200 AFRICOM missions from 2014 simply vanished. And the Senate Armed Services Committee apparently hasn't bothered to ask for clarification.
U.S. pilots have total mastery of the fabled "high ground" of war. And yet throughout the Greater Middle East, America's conflicts rage on with no endgame in sight.
We need a full and public accounting of the CIA's activities, the doings of military and civilian agencies and outfits, the White House's drone assassination program, and the illegal, devastating invasion and occupation of Iraq.
The larger-than-life presence of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump on the national stage may be the most improbable political development of the last half-century. It suggests that we are entering a new phase in our public life.
The assassination of Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour by a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan is the latest item on a long list of milestones briefly heralded as significant achievements only to prove much less than advertised.
Once so wealthy from oil sales that they could finance wars, megaprojects, and domestic social peace simultaneously, Russia, Saudi Arabia and others are now beset by internal strife or are on the brink of collapse as oil prices remain at ruinously low levels.
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In a place where catastrophic food insecurity may tip into starvation at any time, where armed men still arrive in the night to steal and rape, a local aid worker wants—seemingly needs—to know if Donald Trump could actually be elected president of the United States.
Donald Trump is the first presidential candidate to run openly and without apology on a platform of American decline.
With nine months left until a new president is inaugurated, it has to be asked: Can the U.S.' signature war-on-terror prison at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay ever be closed?
This presidential season's relentless flood of "news" about Trump may actually be the opposite of news. Believe it or not, there is still a world out there filled with problems we know so much less about than we should because we're all immersed in the same Trump soup.
Cloaking violent, even murderous actions in anodyne language might help a few doubting functionaries sleep easier at night, but it should make the rest of us profoundly uneasy.
"I almost feel sorry for Trump, because a man so programmed to grab for every headline and steal every show and say whatever he can to keep the hot lights of the media on him undoubtedly wasn't listened to as a kid."
Speaking about my own experiences to high school students heavily propagandized by the U.S. military on the charms and positives of war, American-style, has been changing my life.
Through inaction, the legislative branch has surrendered the final remnant of authority it retained on matters relating to whether, when, against whom, and for what purpose the United States should go to war.
The nuclear competition between India and Pakistan has entered a spine-chilling phase with Islamabad's decision to deploy low-yield tactical nuclear arms at its forward-operating military bases along its entire frontier with India.
When you press Democrats on their lousy trade deals or their flaccid response to Wall Street misbehavior, they automatically reply that those awful Republicans wouldn't let the really good legislation get through. So let's go to a place where Democratic rule is virtually unopposed and see if the excuse holds.
The new American system that's been emerging from its chrysalis in recent years already had demagogic, authoritarian and autocratic tendencies. So don't blame it all on Donald Trump.
Not one of the hundreds of foreign correspondents who chronicled the bombing of Madrid during the Spanish Civil War looked up at the ominous V-shaped formations of Hitler's bombers and wondered: Whose fuel is powering those aircraft?
Like climate change, lymphoma or a termite infestation that destroys from within, an unrecognized and unattended crisis in civil-military relations afflicts the United States.
Yearly do-overs are a hell of a way to run a war, but they're a great mechanism for ensuring that no one will need to take responsibility for a disaster of 14 years and counting.
The oil attrition wars may not lead us into a future of North American triumphalism or even to a more modest Saudi version of the same but into a strange new world in which an unlimited capacity to produce oil meets an increasingly crippled capitalist system without the capacity to absorb it.
Social movements turn issues and demands considered both unrealistic and politically inconvenient into matters that can no longer be ignored. They succeed, that is, by championing the impractical.
Trumpism is not a program or an ideology. It is an attitude or pose that feeds off of, and then reinforces, widespread anger and alienation.
A crowd of people watched as what CNN described as "a sea of police officers" surrounded Mario Woods and shot him dead. At least two people recorded cellphone videos of what looks eerily like an execution by firing squad.
In the American failure in Afghanistan lies the greatest policy paradox of the century: Washington's massive military juggernaut has been stopped dead in its steel tracks by a pink flower, the opium poppy.
The children of Flint, Mich., are hardly the only ones threatened by lead. There's a crisis in Baltimore, Herculaneum, Mo., Sebring, Ohio, and even the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. And that's just to begin the list.
Here's my 21st century rule of thumb about this country: If you have to say it over and over, it probably ain't so.
The Boston Globe presented its recent decision to contract out its delivery service as a clean, technical move to deliver newspapers at lower cost. But that deceptively simple task is in fact provided by some of society's most exploited and marginalized workers, many of them immigrants and undocumented.
Given that our brand of democracy is cold hard cash, let's examine the relationships between our 21st-century plutocrats and the contenders for the White House.
Most Americans are either overworked or hurting for jobs; housing is overpriced; hospitals, crowded and understaffed. Opioid or heroin overdose is a common way of death. Did the American soldiers I covered in Afghanistan know they were fighting for this?
Instead of considered discussion of first-order security concerns, the candidates have regularly opted for bluff and bluster, their chief aim being to remove all doubts regarding their hawkish bona fides.
Here, amid Washington's remarkably unwinnable wars, interventions, and conflicts, is a range of tomorrow's headlines that could be written today and stand a painfully reasonable chance of coming true.
There's good news coming out of Iraq ... again. The efforts of a 65-nation coalition and punishing U.S. airstrikes have helped local ground forces roll back gains by Islamic State.
Even as the global warming crisis makes it clear that coal, natural gas and oil are yesterday's energy, the momentum of two centuries of fossil fuel development means new projects keep emerging in a zombie-like fashion.
Some advice for your presidential candidate of choice—whoever he or she might be. Just don't expect it to necessarily be an easy sell to all Americans.
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In 2011, a group of online gamers solved a 15-year-old biochemical problem in 10 days. Using a simple online puzzle game called Foldit, it took them a little over a week to decipher the crystal structure of the AIDS-causing monkey virus Mason-Pfizer, something scientists had been trying unsuccessfully to do for more than a decade in the hope of gaining insights into the design of antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV.
Foldit was created in 2008 by a research team at the University of Washington in Seattle to determine whether longstanding scientific problems can be solved through crowdsourcing. The online multiplayer game enlists participants from around the world, most with little background in chemistry, to solve a series of pattern-matching challenges related to protein structures. Players "fold" the structure of selected proteins into a "solution," which the game scores using an algorithm that measures several variables, like how closely atoms are packed together or whether it has the correct linking of peptides. The UW team then analyzes the highest-scoring solutions to determine if they can be applied to actual proteins.
Foldit's success lies in its ability to harness the power of collective human intelligence. To date, the game has logged scores from hundreds of thousands of players. Players work in groups, so even if a single individual has limited spatial reasoning skills and hits a dead end, the game makes it easy for others to build on that progress. It's like a virtual lab, where everyone works round-the-clock shifts, taking over where the last player or group left off.
When the results of the Mason-Pfizer discovery were published in the scientific journal Nature, the group of Foldit players responsible for solving the problem refused to provide their individual names, asking instead to be credited under their group name, The Contenders. Although there were 10 active members in the group, only three worked on the solution that resulted in the final discovery. "We wanted it recognized that although it was three of us that produced the result, the success was in part due to the whole team sharing ideas, tips, and techniques," says Michelle Minett, one of the three.
Zoran Popovic, the director of the UW Center for Game Science, says this attitude makes Foldit players "true" scientists—their reward is the discovery itself, not the prestige that comes with it. "Imagine if more of the world's problems could be solved this way," Popovic wonders.
The authors of the Nature paper also speculate about the potential of crowdsourcing scientific progress. "The critical role of Foldit players in the solution of the M-PMV PR structure shows the power of online games to channel human intuition and three-dimensional pattern-matching skills," The Contenders write. "The ingenuity of game players is a formidable force that, if properly directed, can be used to solve a wide range of scientific problems."
Popovic's next project is a step in that direction. It's a game called NanoCrafter, unveiled in April at the Games for Change Festival in New York. It works exactly like Foldit, except this time the puzzles represent DNA strands instead of protein chains. The aim is to come up with new kinds of molecular structures that can be used for different purposes inside the human body—a molecular "robot" that can jump from cell to cell, detecting infection or decay, or a "box" containing a drug targeting cancerous cells.
"Imagine a solution that contains thousands of these tiny molecular boxes," Popovic says. "A patient simply drinks it, and the boxes go through your body targeting bad cells. When they find a bad cell, they release illuminated molecules that attach to the cell wall, allowing them to show up on X-ray scans."
There are only 50 to 100 scientists around the world currently working in the field of DNA-based synthetic biology, which focuses on the design and assembly of synthetic cellular groupings that mimic biological systems. Popovic estimates that number that could increase by 10 to 100 times in the next two to three years with the help of an application like NanoCrafter. As with Foldit, the game aims to build a worldwide community to test different structures and solutions, with new challenges added weekly. Popovic's team is also working on a mobile version of the game for iOS and Android devices, so that subway commuters can while away the hours curing cancer instead of crushing candy.
NanoCrafter, still based out of the University of Washington, is starting to attract interest from other educational institutions. Erik Winfree, a computer science and bioengineering professor at the California Institute of Technology, wants to work with Popovic to provide more scientifically solid models of DNA systems for the game. "The plan is to first build up the NanoCrafter community with a game that uses cartoon-level models of DNA systems, and move to more scientifically solid models if the game takes off," Winfree says.
Winfree is involved in the National Science Foundation's Molecular Programming Project, which applies computer science principles to information-bearing molecules like DNA and RNA—basically, working out how to program molecules to do what you want. His particular focus is making DNA process information like a computer, which could lead to new ways of treating illnesses or, as is NanoCrafter's aim, result in the creation of molecular machines that carry out different tasks within the body.
While it could take a few years for players to master NanoCrafter and deliver a scientific solution on the same scale as Mason-Pfizer, the important thing for Popovic is creating a global community of players—even bigger than Foldit—that can further demonstrate the power of collective intelligence.
A survey conducted by Popovic's team showed that of the top 20 Foldit players, 15 had taken no more than one basic chemistry class at the college level. Only two people in the top 20 were professionally involved in biochemistry. "One of our top players was a grandmother with only high school level education who had a lot of time on her hands," Popovic says. "Others were secretaries, legal assistants, electricians."
Eventually, Popovic wants to apply the collective intelligence approach to problems outside science. What if Foldit and NanoCrafter players turned their attention to solving global warming or corrupt governance? Right now, the idea of expertise in any given field usually applies to individuals, not groups. Popovic says we need to rethink this notion.
"Standard education only produces a tiny sliver of people who are really, truly experts in any field. But something that can take years for these individuals to do can perhaps take days for a community working together day and night. This approach could end up being fundamental for resolving a lot of society's problems."
Illustration by David Schwen
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