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Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.19,0:00:22.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The World Wide Mind is an idea. The World Wide Mind is a concept.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.35,0:00:28.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I tried to do in the book is talk about the World Wide Mind as a coming global intelligence.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.81,0:00:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I mean that in the sense of an intelligence with an intentionality and a consciousness of its own,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.54,0:00:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entirely part of human intelligence. And what I try to do is get away from the science fiction
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.15,0:00:46.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,idea that the internet by itself is going to become intelligent. I think that's an absurd idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.86,0:00:52.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's like saying that putting a bunch of transistors together will just get you a radio automatically.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.45,0:00:58.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think that's going to happen. The argument I make is that the World Wide Mind is a combination
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.76,0:01:05.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of humans and the internet acting together in concert, and that the combination of the two yield to being,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.68,0:01:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is more power than either in isolation. And that, I argue, gives you the seed of an intelligence that neither has by itself.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.61,0:01:23.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what I think of as the World Wide Mind.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.39,0:01:28.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's very legitimate to worry that the internet is alienating us from each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.06,0:01:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You only have to look at figures like the average teenager sends and receives 2,272 texts per month,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.70,0:01:40.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some teenagers send 14 or 20,000 texts in a month.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.95,0:01:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when you look at numbers like that, you really can't avoid the conclusion that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.90,0:01:48.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're spending more time looking at the screen than they are looking at people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.10,0:01:56.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the argument I make is that you can't really stop that hunger to be connected. You can't stop that urge to look at the screen.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.65,0:02:02.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The argument that I make in the book is that you can incorporate that urge, and by actually fusing technology
Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.88,0:02:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the body to make that connection through technology a physical connection,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.85,0:02:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a connection that you make as part of your own internal bonding experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.52,0:02:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is my own human machine connection. I've got two cochlear implants.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.35,0:02:25.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I wear on my ear is a processor where sound goes in the microphone, gets processed by the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.91,0:02:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unit here into ones and zeros and the data is sent to a headpiece, which is a radio transmitter with a magnet in it.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.05,0:02:42.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the magnet will stick to the implant that's in my head. And it's sending data through my skin to that implant.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.49,0:02:50.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there are electrodes that connect to my auditory nerves that send little pulses of electricity to my auditory nerves
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.09,0:02:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that recreate the sensation of hearing for me.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.74,0:02:58.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I'm a guy who actually has 32 electrodes and tens of thousands,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.87,0:03:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually hundreds of thousands of transistors in his head.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.28,0:03:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What I hope that we'll learn is that there is a new way to think about how technology
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.42,0:03:21.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and human relationships can be brought together.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.71,0:03:25.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Right now people think of these domains as mutually exclusive.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.85,0:03:31.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what I suggest in the book is that there is a way to put these worlds together
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.02,0:03:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with physical integration of humans and machines.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.40,0:03:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I don't claim that this is something that's around the corner.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.08,0:03:43.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I do draw from my own personal experience of having a cochlear implant.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.11,0:03:47.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it is a daily reality of my life to boot up my ear in the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.49,0:03:52.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by putting on the processor of my cochlear implant and having it activate
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.38,0:03:55.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the computer chips that are in my head.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.46,0:03:58.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what I'm really trying to say is that technology can be used
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.08,0:04:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create more humane connections between people.