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Author Chorost, Michael.

Title World wide mind : the coming integration of humanity, machines and the Internet / Michael Chorost
Edition First Free Press hardcover edition
Published New York : Free Press, 2011

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Description vii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Prologue: A dead blackberry - The push-pull dynamic of evolution -- What does it mean to "read a mind"? -- The physics of the mind -- The most Intimate Interface -- Your brain is more complex than a galaxy -- The most disconnected man in the world -- Breaking the internet addiction -- The counterclockwise mouse -- The most connected man in the world -- The future of individuality -- Could the world wide mind become self-aware? -- Childhood's beginning
Summary An author who uses bionic implants to help him hear explains exactly how the brain reacts to common communication tools and discusses the risks, implications and amazing possibilities that the future holds
Analysis Digital technology
Forecasting
Innovation
Internet
Interpersonal relations
Mental processes
Neuroscience
Overseas item
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index
Subject Brain mapping -- Data processing.
Brain mapping.
Computational neuroscience.
Internet.
Interpersonal communication -- Technological innovations.
Telepathy.
Interpersonal communication.
Thought and thinking.
LC no. 2010011875
ISBN 1439119147 (hbk.)
9781439119143 (hbk.)
9781439141205 (ebook)