Humans are called Homo sapiens not only because we can use fire and tools, but because of the network formed by the hundreds of millions of neural synapses beneath our skulls. These simple neural connections, driven by bioelectricity, gather into storms inside our brains every moment, giving rise to one milestone achievement after another. Those who come after stand on the foundations laid by their predecessors, continuing to build this Tower of Babel in the hope of unraveling the mysteries of the universe. When the Industrial Revolution began, humanity shifted gears and entered a faster lane. From the loom to Babbage's Analytical Engine, from vacuum tubes to transistors, from centralized processing to distributed computing, and from the night of October 29, 1969, when two computers first successfully transmitted the first two letters of "Login," LO, over a network cable in a UCLA lab, to today's global connectivity, the internet has freed information from the limits of time and space. The seeds of the Information Age had only just been sown in this world, taking root in the earth and merging with everything they touched, while transforming everything around them, like the AllSpark in Transformers. Today, fields both traditional and cutting-edge, from biomedicine and physics to artificial intelligence, can no longer do without the internet. The entire world is like a brain, with all its neurons forging hundreds of millions of connections as it undergoes this great brainstorm...
