The creation of the World Wide Mind depends on unlocking the secrets of the brain's workings, according to Michael Chorost
Imagine being able to sense friends' and colleagues' thoughts and feelings almost as they experience them.
A world where everyone has technologies built into their brain that capture their sensations and stream them to other people around the world.
A world where police officers can instantly sense that their partner is in danger or parents immediately know when their child is scared, and where people can explore random thoughts in each other's minds in an attempt to devise groundbreaking ideas.
This is the World Wide Mind - a concept explored in a new book of the same name by science writer Michael Chorost.
I don't know how comfortable I would be with being linked into a larger network, which would almost border on a hive mind. But I figure if almost have the technology to do that, they can also use it purely to augment the brain.
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