Towards a Global Brain

Summary: Global brain paradigm: AI relies on interlinked cloud databases as memory and sensorium, aided by human data and collective intelligence. Web-scale data-management: integration, quality, privacy, governance, resilience for morally aligned augmentation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 10488
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,701 | 6.00%
DOI: 10.14778/3402707.3402708

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Authors

1. Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media)

BibTeX Citation

@article{oreilly_vldb11,
        title = {{Towards a Global Brain}},
        author = {O'Reilly, Tim},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {11},
        pages = {693},
        doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402708},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402708},
        year = {2011}
}

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