Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century is about how this planet became a massive innovation-sharing network four billion years ago. And about two competitions between groups, the competition between humans and microbes, and the competition between human subcultures like conservatives and liberals, Shiites and Sunnis, and militant Islam and the West.
“In Bloom’s model, bowling leagues, bacteria, bees, Belgium and brains all behave in similar ways. Lots of real science and some history—much of it fascinating, some of it quite obscure—go into Bloom’s ambitious, amply footnoted…arguments. …Bloom’s concept of collective information processing may startle skeptical readers with its explanatory’ power.”
Materials & Secondary Sources
Book Review on Publishers Weekly | Buy it on Amazon | Check it out on Goodreads
2011 Global Brain Summary on IFTV
Howard Bloom on the Global Brain at Thrivals 3.0 in 2010
Howard Bloom on Global Brain 2021 on Tommy Carrigan’s Podcast