http://www.geoplace.com/gw/2003/0309/0309swb.asp
A good overview of an issue I have remarked on hitherto -- that we are in the process of making the world smart. The headline of this article is worth quoting: "The most profound revolutionary technologies are those that disappear...no longer exciting because [they] have become part of our life".
That hits it right on the mark. One of Marshall McLuhan's metaphors was that with new media, we were externalizing our nervous systems -- we are about to make this much more than a matter of mere metaphor.
Posted by jho at October 2, 2003 11:52 AM