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The net is allowing us to turn ourselves into a giant, collective meta-intelligence. And this meta-intelligence continues to grow as more and more people come online. Think about this for a moment: by 2020, nearly three billion people will be added to the Internets community. Thats three billion new minds about to join the global brain. The world is going to gain access to intelligence, wisdom, creativity, insight, and experiences that have, until very recently, been permanently out of reach. In his New Yorker essay Java Man, Malcolm Gladwell explains it this way: Until the eighteenth century, it must be remembered, many Westerners drank beer almost continuously, even beginning their day with something called beer soup. Now they begin each day with a strong cup of coffee. One way to explain the industrial revolution is as the inevitable consequence of a world where people suddenly preferred being jittery to being drunk. ...............huffingtonpost/peter-diamandis/from-beer-to-caffeine-the_b_5538535.html
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 06:28:05 +0000

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