Author: ‘electronic telepathy’ is around the corner - SmartPlanet

Author: ‘electronic telepathy’ is around the corner - SmartPlanet: "Along with all the hubbub about the victory of IBM’s Watson supercomputer over human competitors on Jeopardy, there has been a lot of talk about the “Singularity,” in which computers move closer to matching the intelligence of humans, and humans embed more technology to augment their own bodies.

So the timing couldn’t have been better for the release of Michael Chorost’s new book World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet."