April 13-19′s essential question for CoETaIL.Asia
Enduring Understanding:
The communication tools that exist today are powerful mediums to help spread positive change and global awareness.
So what was the first thing I did? Asked my PLN (Personal Learning Network) of course!
First I asked my twitter network:
Then I asked my Facebook network:
And that was just the replies I got in 5 minutes. Many, many thanks to my PLN!!
Enough said.
Whenever I need information about all things technology – present and future – I turn to Kevin Kelly’s blog, The Technium http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/ The excerpt below of his post, Evidence of a Global Superorganism, answers the above essential question.
“Whenever you are online, whenever you click on a link, or create a link, your processor is participating in the yet larger cloud, the cloud of all computer chips online. I call this cloud the One Machine because in many ways it acts as one supermegacomputer.
This megasupercomputer is the Cloud of all clouds, the largest possible inclusion of communicating chips. It is a vast machine of extraordinary dimensions. It is comprised of quadrillion chips, and consumes 5% of the planet’s electricity.
But there is an emerging smartness in their collective that is smarter than any individual computer. We could say learning (or smartness) occurs at the level of the superorganism.”