television. But not so much to the world of 
computers and even less to the world of network 
computers. I don’t think that we’re in a global 
village. I’m absolutely certain we are in a global 
mind. I like the fact but I don’t like the term. I don’t 
like the metaphor, I think it’s, you know, hokey, but 
I don’t know any better for the moment. We are in 
a global mind, if only because getting on the net is 
a summoning to your attention, you the individual 
member of a thirteen million strong force of 
organic coprocessors. You, that tiny point in a 
thirteen million sea of thoughts and presences, is 
summoning at that time the information that’s 
there available to all. It’s like calling to mind an idea