The Web as artificial intelligence

Wired Magazine published a forward-looking article discussing the development of the World Wide Web as the ultimate form of artificial intelligence that will envelop our planet in the near future.

Some quotes from the article:

"In 10 years, the system will contain hundreds of millions of miles of fiber-optic neurons linking the billions of ant-smart chips embedded into manufactured products, buried in environmental sensors, staring out from satellite cameras, guiding cars, and saturating our world with enough complexity to begin to learn. We will live inside this thing."

"There is only one time in the history of each planet when its inhabitants first wire up its innumerable parts to make one large Machine. Later that Machine may run faster, but there is only one time when it is born."

We are the Web by Kevin Kelly
Wired Magazine (August 2005)