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The inventor of LSD, Albert Hofmann, has joined<\/a> the great Peter Max painting in the sky, but the dreams he spawned live on. Publisher and sometime savant Tim O’Reilly tells<\/a> the BBC, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary<\/a> of the open-sourcing of the World Wide Web, that a true “global consciousness” is at last emerging, thanks to the Net. “It really is going to happen,” he says, and “it’s going to happen mediated by computers.” It is, he continues, “the most profound change since the advent of literacy.”<\/p>\n

Might I just point out here that both LSD and the Web were invented in Switzerland?<\/p>\n

Robert Scoble, the famous blogger, also sees big things ahead for the Web. He tells the BBC: “Why couldn’t I have a little glass behind my eye that tells me your Facebook page and tells me a little bit about you on Wikipedia while I am looking at you?” And just think what Twitter might turn into. “There is a new tweet coming into my account every 15 seconds,” says Scoble, “and 15 years from now what’s that going to feel like? You are going to be able to do a lot more than 140 character messages.”<\/p>\n

More than 140 characters? Amazing.<\/p>\n

“Don’t be so gloomy,” Harry Lime tells Holly Martins in the film of Greene’s The Third Man<\/i>. “After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”<\/p>\n

O’Reilly may be right. Define consciousness downward sufficiently and – cuckoo! – a global one emerges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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