sec quite a lot about the 'collective IQ" of the net - which is something that the mainstream media don't seem to understand at all. A passage in William Calvin's essay where he talks about the net enabling us to "stand on the shoulders of a lot more giants at the same time- reminded me of an older metaphor

her half. The closest thing to a clear depiction of this aspect of glocal memory that seems to exist in the neuroscience literature is a portion of William Calvin's theory of the "cerebral code" ICalM. Calvin pro- poses a set of quite specific mechanisms by which knowledge may be represented in the brain using c