With a huge flow of information from many sources, some sort of activity stream filter is needed so that the amount of information flowing through a news feed does not become overwhelming and unmanageable.

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The activity stream filter must be smart.

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Eventually, however, wider awareness enables some processes to be radically transformed for the better. (For more about this, see the big idea on Social Media and Business Process Transformation at CITO Research.) Note that an intelligent activity stream filter is key to making this work, and we do not have one yet.

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This is possible using algorithms that filter out interference caused by external electrical activity.

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