http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/the-web-we-weave/?hp In the New York Times of 10.07.06, the "Opinionator" column, Robert Wright writes a few words about "Building One Big Brain". He refers to a new book "What Technology Wants" to be published in August 2010. He and the book observe that computer technologies in large corporations, in government (and this PI must add: in the 'Cloud' of 1000s of computer web servers world wide which now make the "world wide web" function) are organizing human beings as if we are becoming 'nodes' in a huge global inter-connected network of human-nodes. See also "the AI Singularity" idea on wikipedia and referenced elsewhere on this site.