Sentient Mechanics: The Web Like You’ve Never Known | Mysterious Universe: "Truth be known, there are some experts who already feel like the internet, a summation of virtually all mankind’s knowledge outsourced from our brains and into computers, is functioning more and more like an enormous, interdependent (yet strikingly autonomous) human mind itself. The collective intelligence of our species, funneled into online networks, contains a frightening amount of personal information about virtually every living person, and it doesn’t appear to be stopping with social networking sites like Facebook. If anything, as more and more information become available to the growing body of technology already accessible to the web, the science fictionist deep within may begin to question at what point the net begins to function as an independent entity?"
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