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"Peter Russell has extrapolated that with the increasing speed of computer connectivity over the Internet and the increasing number of people with access to it worldwide, the world is becoming interconnected much faster than anyone anticipated. Within the first years of the next decade, Russell feels we can postulate the emergence of a ?global brain.? Every one of the 10 billion cells in the brain has the capacity to connect to every other cell in almost no time. When we combine the increase in Internet connectivity, the speed of connection, and the increase in computer speeds, we can see the real possibility of this global brain becoming reality in the next years. Russell describes the planetary consciousness as 'billions of messages moving backward and forward in an ever-growing web of communication, linking the billions of minds of humanity into one single system.'"

Arjuna Ardagh