From Henry Warwick
If traffic between websites will form a simulation of a neural network, and
the amount of Internet traffic will determine which “neuron/sites” live and
thrive and get greater connectivity, and which ones die from (comparative) lack
of use, then I would humbly submit that newscientist.com and its extremely
worthwhile content would sadly wither and die on the vine long before
pornography sites and other sites of equally dodgy taste and value expire.
Now what does that say about the global brain?
The Internet is not a brain. It is not a frontier. It is a collection of
computers passing voltages to each other. It’s important to remember that we can
take our mythologies about our machines a wee bit too seriously.
San Francisco
