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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