internet is the global brain
Which one below do you think is the image depicting global internet backbone and inter-neuron connections in human brain? Click on the images to check whether you guessed it right!
This is the Internet
Source: http://www.opte.org/the-internet/
This is the Human Brain
Source: https://www.kurzweilai.net/largest-network-of-cortical-neurons-mapped-from-100-terabytes-data-set#!prettyPhoto
“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do this will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket.”
Nicolas Tesla
interview with Colliers magazine in 1926
“Today, after more than a century of electric technology, we have extended our central nervous system itself in a global embrace, abolishing both space and time as far as our planet is concerned.”
Marshall McLuhan
Understanding Media, 1964
The wiring of human brain
