The Technium
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Argues that technology forms a planetary super‑organism—the Technium—made of 4 billion mobile phones, ~80 quintillion transistors, a million miles of fiber and 6 billion wired minds and already holding ~276 exabytes of memory. Claims current Technium matches the complexity equivalent to one human brain and will exceed all 7 billion brains by ~2040. Identifies seven engineering frontiers: new math for mega‑data, new technological immunology for system security, emergence and system‑level failures (flash crash), anticipatory control, and a decentralized global OS; gives concrete failures like a homemade $20 toaster.
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- 0:00Start
- 11:08Technium Machine will exceed all 7 billion human brains in processing power.
- 20:11Our longest running machine.
- 21:00Mega data Mega bandwidth Mega sensors lega real time
- 27:55Search for Internet ntelligence
- 30:25Flus Cancer Poisonings
- 35:14This is the beginning of the beginning.
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