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title: "It's alive"
date: 2006-10-23T10:55:56Z
modified: 2006-10-23T10:55:56Z
permalink: "https://dogwonder.co.uk/2006/10/its-alive/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 314
categories:
  - General
tags:
  - complexity
  - emergence
  - google
  - Internet
---

> Kevin Kelly noted that the web currently has 1 trillion links, 1 quintillion transistors, and 20 exabytes of memory. A single human brain has 1 trillion synapses (links), 1 quintillion neurons (transistors of sorts), and 20 exabytes of memory.

Arghh, it’s coming to get us, the internet has achieved sentience. Kind of cool landmark to achieve. What will happen now, will the web turn against us?

![Google - Sentience](https://i0.wp.com/www.dogwonder.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/google_dave.gif?w=640)