The Internet represents a major step in our evolution, and is a forerunner of things to come. Artificial intelligence researcher Francis Heylighen sees huge growth as this new world-wide communication system continues to gain power from billions of humans adding to its intelligence every day. “It will get smarter,” Heylighen says, “as it morphs into a global super-organism that could one day provide solutions to most of humanity’s problems.
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As reported here also (whose owner gets the credit for the pic here displayed) one day the net actually gain consciusness.
I actually believe it is gonna be kind of hard, as long as we’re gonna interact through relatively simple machines like most pc’s still are.