World wide mind : the coming integration of humanity, machines and the internet / Michael Chorost.

New York : Free Press, 2011.

vii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st Free Press hardcover ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-230) and index.

Prologue: A dead blackberry -- The push-pull dynamic of evolution -- What does It mean to "read a mind"? -- The physics of the mind -- The most intimate Interface -- Your brain is more complex than a galaxy -- The most disconnected man in the world -- Breaking the internet addiction -- The counterclockwise mouse -- The most connected man in the world -- The future of individuality -- Could the world wide mind become self-aware? -- Childhood's beginning.