The Global Brain
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A twine about the concept of an emerging global brain.
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Questions we are interested in:
What are the similarities and differences between the Internet and the human brain and nervous system?
What data can we cite that establishes the progression towards, or existence of, the global brain? How can we measure progress, measure its capabilities, and project its further development?
What are the steps that are leading us towards a global brain?
Has the global brain already happened, or when will it happen, and/or what stages will it go through as it emerges?
Is there any way the global brain might not happen?
What are the implications of the global brain? Are there risks? What are the tangible benefits?
Are there any new technologies needed, or that might result from it?
Will there be one global brain or many?
Is the global brain just a nice metaphor or is it really a distinct entity that is worthy of scientific study in its own right?
What will the world be like if and when the global brain matures? How will the world be different for the world today?
Join us here to collaborate in collecting, sharing and discussing links, news, original ideas and resources related to this topic. Please invite other people who share this interest and can add to our collective thinking.
Questions we are interested in:
What are the similarities and differences between the Internet and the human brain and nervous system?
What data can we cite that establishes the progression towards, or existence of, the global brain? How can we measure progress, measure its capabilities, and project its further development?
What are the steps that are leading us towards a global brain?
Has the global brain already happened, or when will it happen, and/or what stages will it go through as it emerges?
Is there any way the global brain might not happen?
What are the implications of the global brain? Are there risks? What are the tangible benefits?
Are there any new technologies needed, or that might result from it?
Will there be one global brain or many?
Is the global brain just a nice metaphor or is it really a distinct entity that is worthy of scientific study in its own right?
What will the world be like if and when the global brain matures? How will the world be different for the world today?
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Toward a civilization of collective intelligenceSlides from Pierre Lévy
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NSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepositoryNSA to store yottabytes of surveillance data in Utah megarepository by Devin Coldewey on November 1, 2009 There’s an interesting article in the current New York Review of books (predictably, a book review) detailing the history of the National Security Agency, that shadowy ...
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Minding the Planet: What's After the Real Time Web?In typical Web-industry style we're all focused minutely on the leading trend-of-the-year, the real-time Web. But in this obsession we have become a bit myopic. The real-time Web, or what some of us call "The Stream," is not an end in itself, it's a means to an end. So what will it enable, ...
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Researchers bring noise to virtual worlds
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Fernanda IbarraComments
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The Internet: a world brain? | Skeptical Inquirer | Find Articles at BNETSorry, the article doesn't exist in this site. I can't find the whole article, anyway here ( http://everything2.com/node/1344700 ) there's a news summary about it.Aleix Orti added 8 days ago
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Web 2.0 Panel: Humans as SensorsImportant point [my opinion] for twine: "Waze has learned from web 2.0 that you need to apply different weighting for different people."Phil Duby added 2 weeks ago
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32The Buddy System: How Medical Data Revealed Secret to Health and HappinessThis is one of the most important things I've read this year. Not because I didn't know this intuitively, but because these researchers actually have proved it. It's a big paradigm shift -- and this is only the very tip of it. Ideas, opinions, sentiment etc. also travel through social networks ...Nova Spivack added 8 weeks ago
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Global Guerrillas: The US, GLOBALIZATION and the RED QUEENThought this might be tangentially relevant on these twines.Buck Little added 2 months ago
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32Echo won’t kill comments — they’re already deadReally insightful article, especially the last points. I agree we need a better way to have "mass conversations." That's a really interesting suggestion.Nova Spivack added 2 months ago
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