Comparing
Human Synapse activity with Internet activity shows surprising similarity

Picture if you will, the human brain – powered by electrical
synapses,
driving complicated biological based circuitry often triggered by external
stimuli (smells, pictures, texture).

Neurons, or nerve cells, each have a pair of projections—the
axon and the dendrite, which

transmit and receive impulses, respectively.

The
dendrite, a treelike structure, has several branches dotted with hundreds
of synaptic receiving terminals called “spines,” each connected to the
axons of scores of other neurons. When one of these spines receives stimulation
(through the synapse it creates with another cell's axonal projection), the
spine expands into the synapse, strengthening the link between its neuron and
the other cell. This process of enhanced communication through a synapse is
called long-term
potentiation (LTP) and is thought to be the basis of learning.

Sometimes the senses output, results in the incorrect
synapse being fired or the incorrect receptor “catching” the results of the
memory bank search.  (This is probably
from the abuse of alcohol, THC and other similar substances during college
years).

Peer 2
Peer in unwitting partnership with Google finally creates a synaptic Mob[1].

Very much
like a Google search that  responds with “cheap
Holiday Destinations” when one searches for London and Big Ben.

Google has
built its artificially intelligent rules set database on our search requests.
None of us stop to consider that every google search actually involves an
interactive conversation between the user and the goggle ruleset database.

By clicking
on the link of choice we are further adding to Googles understanding that
people that wanted London AND Big Ben also probably want “Pub with a view”
”cold beer” or if individuals are identified in personal preferences as
belonging to the feminine gender then probably “Brolly colours for next years
fashion scene to view Big Ben in”.

Whatever
the relationship a user currently has with Google or your favourite search
engine, a paradigm shift is taking place.
(I love that phrase.)

Google has
for sometime been trolling the internet, Facebook Walls, P2P file Sharing
Servers and adding the knowledge to its search engines.

Therefore
if I am interested in E-wally, Disney/Pixars new animated release,  I am shown Facebook as the first pick. But by
changing the selection to “e Wally”; midway down the page I am offered a
Torrent download of the movie. Quite often, before the movie is released at the
box office. If however I am not dyslexic AND I know how to spell wall-E then I am
immediately shown the movie trailer as first choice with the Torrent options
now pushed down to the bottom of the page.  In other words, Google “KNEW” what I wanted.

Our Google
interaction can be likened to waking up in the morning after only 2 hours of
sleep. The brain refuses to engage until at least two cups of coffee [insert
alternate favourite heart starter here], a visit to the water closet and the
obligatory invigorating shower. i.e.: The brain can only focus on one item at a
time.

We call
this time slice computing.

One thing
at a time.

Place:
Your Apartment.

Time:
Within the next 12 months

As the
coffee kicks in, the time slicing speeds up and the TVU is turned on.

A voice
reads aloud to you because of course the eyes aren’t focusing yet.

“Top watched
News program this morning is Fox8 on Channel 90025 out of New Orleans with 563 peers. Please say Watch to
select or say menu for other options.”

TVU is a peer
to peer (P2P) program/widget that lets you watch several hundred different
direct to Internet broadcasts and you don’t even have to think about what is
popular or newsworthy – just be a sheep and follow the herd, click on the link
with the most peers.

True real
time Nielsen type ratings are finally available.

Lets go
back to those synapses. Imagine each peer watching Fox8 is actually a synapse.
The peers are creating your EPG (electronic Program Guide) for you. If no-one
is watching the channel, the selection will be greyed out (not available). No
longer will you have to worry what cable channels to subscribe too – its all on
the internet or it will be soon.

The peers
take over your thought processes by suggesting which programs will be delivered
to you the fastest and each peer is allocating a small portion of their private
computer to your viewing pleasure.

Yay – free
choice/mob rules, call it what you will but this is a prime example of where
the Internet is taking us. The Internet, The Machine, either name is becoming
rapidly more appropriate.

Each day in
downtown San Francisco the ominous black omnibuses collect the skunk works
google employees to continue analyzing, rewriting, codifying your search
requests. The machine has a heart-beat and its redundancy is Peer to Peer
networking.

Viva
P2Pvolution. (A termed coined by myself to try to explain what is happening. -
Replacing the u with an i is optional.)
References:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYCf4ONh5M Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of of the Internet