So far technology has been made comfortable and more accommodating, but while opening some doors, it has forcibly shut others. Imagine working, going to school or college without an electronic device or internet. You cannot. That’s how far these things had assimilated themselves into our day to day. They have become not just a part of our lives but an extension. Think of it as a phantom limb which forms a compound entity of a human and technology.

 

For the longest time, it has been in one’s dreams of a chrome future to say that man and machine will become one or machine will wage war against man. I assume by this time you already realized what I am talking about now. Luckily, the human aspect has still been retained in things like art, music and medicine. There is an aspect of pure entropy to the mind that is nigh impossible to replicate. In my mission, this is not what I am trying to do. There is little point to reinventing the wheel, so instead, I seek to create something that can accommodate pre-existing conditions. 

 

The mind and its microcosms have long been a subject of my fascination side by side with computers, of course. It would be reductive to assume that every scientist operates on the basis of logic alone. There is definitely an art to it, I think.

 

This is why I am working on something very special. I would like to make technology, that phantom limb into a thread that can connect every single person as if every individual were a functional neuron or a part of a larger, composite whole on a subconscious, psychic level. I am talking about the global brain, a known neuroscientific concept. Imagine a large network of information that can interconnect every single individual and technological artefact, storing more information than ever. What you might be thinking of is the world wide web. It is exceptionally capable of connecting users as a collective, nervous system of the planet, creating vast fields of living, breathing information. But I’d like to take it a step further. The next logical step for noogenesis is the ability to connect the minds of individuals through a digital network, which is why I am so excited to work on this project.

 

— N.H c. 2300