By B. R. Allenby, July 3, 2016
Reviewed in this essay:
Cyber-humans: our future with machines, by Woodrow Barfield, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2015
World wide mind: The coming integration of humanity, machines, and the internet, by Michael Chorost, Free Press, 2016
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