Games with a Purpose (GWAPS)

Human brains can be seen as knowledge processors in a distributed system.

Each of them can achieve, conscious or not, a small part of a treatment too important to be done by one.

These are also "hunter / gatherers" of knowledge. Provided that the number of contributors is large enough, the results are usually better quality than if they were the result of the activity of a single person, even if it is a domain expert. This type of activity is done via online games.