The Internet is a Brain
Sunny summer’s morning in Somerset, enjoying the juxtaposition of:
Popular Science’s revelation of the first wiring diagrams of the cerebral cortex:
Matthew Hurst’s brilliant blogosphere activation simulation / visualization from PdF2008:
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And Jeff Stibel’s Harvard Business blog: The Internet is a Brain
Streaming live from 2gether08
Thanks to Richard Jolly, here’s the live streaming feed from the wonderful 2gether08 conference. The full conference schedule is available here.
UPDATE: With the conference over for this year, here are a couple of video interviews recorded at the event by (the thankfully ubiquitous) David Wilcox:
(1) UK Minister for Transformational Government, and still prolific blogger, Tom Watson, on the announcement of Show Us a Better Way, a laudable and timely £20,000 public competition to find innovative ways of building on and mashing up Government data:
(2) An impromptu interview between Umair Haque, Director of the Havas Media Lab, and Benjamin Cohen, Channel 4’s technology correspondent, on Umair’s inspiring manifesto for the next industrial revolution: