The Semantic Sphere 1

The new digital media offers us an unprecedented memory capacity, an ubiquitous communication channel and a growing computing power. How can we exploit this medium to augment our personal and socialcognitive processes at the service of human development? Combininga deep knowledge of humanities and social sciences as well as areal familiarity with computer science issues, this bookexplains the collaborative construction of a globalhypercortex coordinated by a computable metalanguage. Byrecognizing fully the symbolic and social nature of humancognition, we could transform our current opaque global brain intoa reflexive collective intelligence.