Saving the world

Cars, mobile phones and other electronic devices are becoming more interconnected with the Internet which brings me to this thought. Before computers, our only connection to our planet is what Mother Earth tells us. Most of the time she bounces on you when it is too late. It does not have to be natural disasters instead it could even be a simple conflict in the middle east which eventually blew itself out of proportions. Today with all of the electronic gadgets connecting to the Internet, we are creating an artificial nervous system for our planet. A nervous system, with the right analytical tools, will be able to provide us insights taken from the infinite amounts of data that we produce each day. For example, crowd sourcing is gaining popularity. It takes postings from Internet users of an event (for example Egypt crisis) and correlate them into intelligence, ultimately describing the exact situation of that area at any one point of time. It is going to be an exciting future for us where humans get smarter.