15 NOV 2013 by ideonexus
The Internet as a Superorganism
If the cloud is a vast array of personal computer processors, then why not add your own laptop or desktop computer to it? It in a certain way it already is. Whenever you are online, whenever you click on a link, or create a link, your processor is participating in the yet larger cloud, the cloud of all computer chips online. I call this cloud the One Machine because in many ways it acts as one supermegacomputer. The majority of the content of the web is created within this one virtual compu...Folksonomies: intelligence emergence
Folksonomies: intelligence emergence
Built from a gazillion chips coordinating to distribute content, memes, calculations.