This essay places the emerging brain-Internet interface within a broad historical context: that the Internet represents merely the next stage in a very long history of human cognition whereby the brain couples with symbolic technologies. Understanding this 'deep history' provides a way to imagine the future of brain-Internet cognition.

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Ohio State University, USA

David J. Staley

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David J. Staley is Associate Professor of History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Design at The Ohio State University, USA.

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Book Title: Brain, Mind and Internet
Book Subtitle: A Deep History and Future
Authors: David J. Staley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137460950
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46094-3Published: 15 August 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-46095-0Published: 15 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 101
Topics: History of Psychology, Philosophy of Science, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Cultural History, Media Studies, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Extend

Reconfigure

Query

Interface

Limit

Conclude

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