Periodicals>Magazine Article: Stibel, Jeff (June 23, 2008), The Internet Is a Brain, Harvard Business Review, Retrieved on 2013-11-15Source Material [blogs.hbr.org]
Folksonomies: internet emergence consciousness Memes
15 NOV 2013
The Internet as a Brain
The brain is one of the most complex networks in the world, with more neurons than there are stars in the galaxy. Its hardware is a complex network of neurons; its software a complex network of memories. And so too is the Internet a network. Its hardware is a complex network of computers; its software a complex network of websites. There is a lot we can learn from the brain and it can tell us where the Internet is headed next.
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In practice, the Internet is clunkier, slower, and smaller...The question for me is: How do you detect the intelligence? If we are only interacting with neurons, how to we see the big picture?