Technology theorist and author Michael Chorost spoke to a capacity crowd in Alumni Hall on Friday, Sept. 9.
Chorost delivered a talk titled “World Wide Mind: How to Connect Your Brain to the Internet (And Would You Want To).”
In 2001, Chorost went completely deaf and had a computer implanted in his head to allow him to hear again. This transformative experience inspired his first book, Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human. He wrote about how mastering his new ear, a cochlear implant, enabled him to enhance his creative potential as a human being.
In his second book, World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet, he proposes that humanity can incorporate the computer into its collective soul in a way that enhances communities and creative work instead of diminishing them.
Chorost’s talk served as a pre-cursor to this year’s Nobel Conference, which is titled “The Brain and Being Human.”
Click here to view photos from Chorost’s lecture today at Gustavus.
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