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		The Internet Is a Brain (hbsp.com)
		1 point by bootload on Dec 17, 2008 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

psyklic on Dec 17, 2008 [–]

This analogy is nothing new, and unfortunately it is just the latest analogy of the brain to the latest technological gizmo.

The brain was analogous to the telegraph, the telephone switchboard, the computer, and now ... the Internet.

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