The Internet as a brain

Currently finishing the book How the Brain is Shaping the Future of the Internet, by Jeffrey M. Stibel, 2009.  The most interesting part so far is straight from this article about Google and the power requirements of the server farms of the 'cloud.'

 George Gilder in Wired 

Old now, but I hadn't run across it.  More interesting in light of the Sunday NYT front page article about suitcase wireless and alternate cell service provision. 

But mainly the brain book posits that the internet is growing like a brain and to understand how it will develop one must understand how the brain develops and works.  A lot of extra verbiage for not so much content, but an interesting read so far.  I in the end he's gonna explain why the brain implants in Melissa Scott's Trouble and Her Friends are on the horizon, so I will read (or skip) to the end.