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The Global Brain
The Global
Brain
Public use of the World Wide Web dates
from 1991. Now, the development of
a system that may allow our brains to
interface with the Cloud is a possibility.
Brain/Cloud interface
Technology is racing to connect
human brains into the gigantic
electronic network of the Cloud
using a brain/Cloud interface (B/CI).
A person may eventually be able
to access a vast bank of human and
electronic knowledge, but many
challenges must be overcome. For
example, the speed of data transfer
must be controlled, or incoming
information could be so excessive
that it totally overloads our
consciousness. And from the start,
fully safeguarding each human
brain is essential.Design challenges
Attempting to design a B/CI involves many
key elements: a connection to the human
brain itself, a method of wirelessly
transmitting the brain’s neural activity into
a local computer network, and establishing
how this network interacts with the Cloud.Communicating with the Cloud
Computers and smart devices, which
can connect with each other and with the
internet, communicate with the Cloud.
The number of smart devices linked to
the internet is now more than double the
number of people in the world. If human
brains are also able to join the Cloud, it
will become an even busier place.2
The Cloud
The Cloud includes giant databases,
server farms, megaprocessors, and
supercomputers. These work together
in real time to receive, store, manage, and
send information to millions of individual
computers and other devices linked to them.1
WHAT IS
THE CLOUD?The Cloud is an immense,
worldwide, interwoven
network of major electronic
equipment. Through it,
software and services can
run on the internet instead
of on your computer.
The use of personal
computers may fade
as personal brain/Cloud
interfaces take over“Farms” containing
racks of servers are
bigger than many townsDATA CENTER
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