CHAPTER 6
A Web of Neurons
THE HARDWARE OF THE INTERNET is little more than a network of computers and phone lines. It is an incremental improvement over what came before. But the World Wide Web is a transformational change. It is more than improved wires and connections. It is the primordial soup from which I believe human-like intelligence—reasoning, intuition, and creativity—will one day arise.
The Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. Hypertext (developed at Brown University in the 1960s) appears most often as blue underlined text that you click on to open other Web sites, as though you were passing through a door into a new realm of content.1 Using hypertext you can also post information, link it ...
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