Google creating the world brain
Ester Dyson visited Google recently and came away with a new appreciation for what the company is trying to achieve. Google is rapidly digitizing every work of man, not unlike the "World Brian" envisioned by H.G. Wells.
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At 7:57 PM, zeevveez said…
H.G. Wells coined the idiom "world brain" in 1938. I believe he wanted to build a good world brain that will give us what we need. Google gives us much more than we need, not just in the astronomical number of results but in almost each and every result: You ask for a monkey and get the whole zoo.
See more on http://qtsaver.blogspot.com/2006/01/world-brain.html
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