The ancient roots of the global web
Earth's hidden biological internet
The birth of the Noosphere
The digital nervous system
YOUR GOAL
Master of The planetary mind
007skaty The Digital Nervous System
Almost all our data flows on the ocean floor, In beams of light traveling fast from shore to shore.
007skaty Since 2007, these networks harness collective human power to classify distant galaxies, track wildlife migrations, and fold proteins
007skaty Match glowing synapse buddies to discover how a collective planetary mind shares thoughts.
Gamified science: In 2011, players of the online game Foldit decoded the structure of an enzyme involved in reproducing HIV, a puzzle that had remained unsolved by scientists for 15 years.
The postulated global sphere of human thought and collective mental activity that envelopes the Earth. French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin conceptualized this layer, which modern global telecommunications networks physically manifest.
What crowd-sourced puzzle game allowed players to map the structure of an AIDS-related virus protein in just ten days?
What technology aims to connect human brains directly to computers, potentially enabling telepathic collective minds?
What is the name of the popular citizen science platform launched in 2007 that hosts projects like Galaxy Zoo?
What network topology does the internet share with the human brain's neural pathways?
Who wrote the influential 1983 book 'The Global Brain' proposing the internet as Earth's nervous system?