This was a cool read. Fun to dig through the Internet to figure out where the article came from. Searching around, this appears to be Part VIII of a collection

This was a cool read. Fun to dig through the Internet to figure out where the article came from. Searching around, this appears to be Part VIII of a collection from Howard Bloom[1] entitled "History of the Global Brain" that looks to have been written over the course of 1997 for Telepolis[2]. It looks like these writings were put together in a book, published in 2000, called Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century[3]. There are a lot more links, images, formatting, and other stuff in the original articles. You can start with Part I of this series, called "Biology, Evolution and the Global Brain," still available online[4]. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bloom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bloom [2] - http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2227/1.html http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2227/1.html [3] - http://www.abebooks.com/9780471295846/Global-Brain-Evolution-Mass-Mind-0471295841/plp http://www.abebooks.com/9780471295846/Global-Brain-Evolution... [4] - http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2102/1.html http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2102/1.html