Summary

This work provides an understanding of the meaning of rapidly growing networks on the World Wide Web and how they affect our lives, from business and commerce to politics, education and the media. The author speculates on the consequences of massive global networking, and what might happen if it reaches a critical mass of independent connected intelligence. Will the sum of people's connected intelligence be vastly more intelligent than any one person's could hope to be? This proposition points directly towards the possibility that we are currently undergoing one of the greatest leaps in the evolution of our species; connected intelligence may be the next step in the evolution of human intelligence.