Francis Heylighen on the Emerging Global Brain: An Interview by Ben Goertzel

The concept of the Global Brain has a long history, going back to ancient ideas about society as a superorganism, and the term was introduced in Peter Russell's 1982 book "The Global Brain". However, the Principia Cybernetica page on the Global Brain was the first significant online resource pertaining to the concept, and remains the most thorough available resource for matters Global-Brain-ish. Francis published one of the earliest papers on the Global Brain concept, and in 1996 he founded the "Global Brain Group", an email list whose membership includes many of the scientists who have worked on the concept of emergent Internet intelligence.