dabbling in futurology

Everyone is entitled to flights of the mind. Here's mine:

Now wouldn't it be useful to have a sort of Internet of minds? This occurred to me because a keyword in a book I was reading triggered a memory of an incident in college, yet I couldn't recall the exact details of that day. I sometimes torture myself to remember minute details of some event of my life. So it occurred to me that it would be fortunate if we have a sort of network where we can access our memories the way we search for information using search engines such as google. In this way, it could be a universal mental database, a real interconnected hypertext, not necessarily a thinking universal mind.

Of course we have yet to invent a search engine that could search out pictures, considering that we are predominantly visual creatures. Yet given time, scientists and innovators may begin to tackle such challenges.


Oh, and the keyword was 'learning.'