BOOKS

MegaMinds develops a comprehensive theory of how people do genius level thinking and how this can be augmented by the new Web-based search and invent services. Larry Kilham reviews the major creative epochs and thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Edison and Einstein and then moves on to the latest in computer-aided thinking. He reviews artificial intelligence and highlights its limitations and then goes on to explore the possibilities with Google and other massive Web-based connected, collectivized intelligence. Larry is an electronics engineer from a family of artists and inventors, and this gives him a special insight about creativity and invention.

Nobody’s mind is a mind by itself. We are now in the era of MegaMinds which are individual minds networked together. They can be more powerful and more creative than any lone genius or any supercomputer. This is a brain-computer partnership whose elements will be explained so that all readers can benefit. This book will describe what is needed to effect the 

brain-computer partnership, what kinds of breakthroughs we can expect, and what we must do to make them happen. Inventing with Google is described in six steps.

 Using the latest research in cognitive and computer sciences, MegaMinds explains in engaging terms  that 

 huge data bases in engineering, science and other areas require analytical methods and research approaches unknown even several decades ago. We are suddenly in the era of Big Data, and clouds of thousands of computers working together look for models and solutions. Artificial intelligence and other new computer approaches are examined for the real contributions they can make and where their benefits are overstated. 

Examples of MegaMinds at work are drawn from a wide variety of applications ranging from very small to the enormous: