Freebase, the database, wants to be global brain
Metaweb Technologies is a new start-up seeking to create a massive public database that will store all of the world’s digital information, creating what one insider calls the “synapses for the global brain.”
Led by Danny Hillis, an expert in intelligent machines, it has an ambition akin to Google, but built from the beginning to allow free access, to be highly categorized and allow machines to talk it in more sophisticated ways.
The New York Times’ John… Continue Reading