Google Knol: the Global Brain
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
The Global Brain: interconnections
Over the next fortnight I’ll be writing about the main constituents of the Global Brain and publishing that here as well as on Google Knol (http://knol.google.com/k/twain-luu/the-global-brain-singularity-and-360/31fjy9fjsu1×2/19#).
Topics which will be covered in the full posting (release date: 26 November 2008) include:
(i.) origins of the Global Brain and associated concepts
(ii.) historical context of collective human intelligence
(iii.) major schools of thought on the Singularity
(iv.) key proponents and detractors such as Ray Kurzweil, Vernor Vinge, Stephen Hawkings, Richard Dawkins, Pierre Levy, Peter Thiel/Mark Zuckerberg, and Anthony Berglas
(v.) relationships with Moore’s Law, Aasimov’s science fiction, William Gibson’s Neuromancer and other creative efforts
(vi.) consciousness paradigms from Confucius to Clay Shirky
(vii.) current and theoretical technological models on achieving the Singularity
(viii.) economic implications and GAIA revolutions
(ix.) gender and cultural identity within the Global Brain matrix
(x.) human existence and potential neural saturation post-Singularity
As part of this piece, I’m currently reading ‘How the body shapes the way we think’ by Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard, published by MIT Press Books.
