The Emerging Scholarly BrainFrom MicaThe Emerging Scholarly Brain a talk by Dr. Michael J. Kurtz (at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) on December 18, 2010 This talk was based on a paper of the same name. Abstract: It is now a commonplace observation that human society is becoming a coherent super-organism, and that the information infrastructure forms its emerging brain. Perhaps, as the underlying technologies are likely to become billions of times more powerful than those we have today, we could say that we are now building the lizard brain for the future organism. Link to the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.0826 MediaSlides No known audio recording (because Troy was away for Christmas) |