TOWARDS A GLOBAL BRAIN?
Peter Russell is a revolutionary futurist and author of The Global Brain and The White Hole in Time. In 1993 the environmental magazine Buzzworm voted Peter Russell "Eco-Philosopher Extraordinaire" of the year.
In The Global Brain, Russell predicted the coming of a worldwide intelligence networked by computer web. He writes:
"The interlinking of humanity that began with the emergence of language has now progressed to the point where information can be transmitted to anyone, anywhere, at the speed of light. Billions of messages continually shuttling back and forth, in an ever-growing web of communication, linking the billions of minds of humanity together into a single system. Is this Gaia growing herself a nervous system? The parallels are certainly worthy of consideration ... there are, very approximately, the same number of nerve cells in a human brain as there are human minds on the planet. And there are also some interesting similarities between the way the human brain grows and the way in which humanity is evolving."
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