At the Grauniad, on a critique by columnist Charles Arthur of a singularly asinine article by Kevin Kelly of Wired, in which Kelly compares the human brain to the internet:
CSClark
Comment No. 1194701
June 30 13:48Taking it seriously for a moment why, in the numbers at the bottom, does he yoke all data devices together but not all human brains?
But it’s probably a mistake to take it seriously. The numbers are, I suppose, wowifying on their own, for the easily impressed, but to turn them into an argument for ‘We are headed toward a singular destiny: one vast computer composed of billions of chips and billions of brains, enveloping the planet in a single sphere of intelligence’ seems to me like finding it amazing that if you laid 36,000 Statues of Liberty on their end it would reach the moon and deciding on that basis that sculptors are actually working on a space programme.
See? The internet’s not even as clever as a lone Guardian commenter …
