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David Buss Sam Harris W. Daniel Hillis Eric Kandel Kai Krause Lisa Randall Paul Saffo J. Craig Venter Frank Wilczek Ian Wilmut Back to Index W. DANIEL HILLIS Physicist, Computer Scientist; Chairman, Applied Minds, Inc.; Author, The Pattern on the Stone A FOREBRAIN FOR THE WORLD MIND In 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, "Is it a fact — or have I dreamt it — that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence!" He was writing about the telegraph, but today we make essentially the same observation about the Internet. One might suppose that, with all its zillions of transistors and billions of human minds, the world brain would be thinking some pretty profound thoughts. There is little evidence that this is so. Today's Internet functions mostly as a giant communications and storage system, accessed by individual humans. Although muc

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