Internet
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World Wide Mind
March 28, 2011
For an author with cochlear implants, the merger of computer and brain, bytes and thoughts, has never felt far-fetched. In a brilliant new book, Michael Chorost makes his case: by making the internet a new nervous system for humanity, humans will also re-connect with one another in a profoundly new way.
books, cognition, communication, internet, language, neuroscience
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Ideas
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Ideas
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The second most common element in the universe is increasingly rare on Earth—except, for now, in America.
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Ideas
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