As the inventors of MapReduce noted in a recent paper, "It has been used across a wide range of domains within Google including: large-scale machine learning problems; clustering problems...; extracting data to produce reports of popular queries; extracting properties of Web pages for new experiments and products...; processing of satellite imagery data; language model processing for statistical machine translation, and; large-scale graph computation." Or in other words, the tasks Google performs are similar to the functions performed by the brain: learning, categorization, vision and language.

As usual brilliant illuminating clips Silkweaver, thanks so often.

Interesting article. I wonder what the ultimate usefulness will be. I don't see the market in having something ultimately think FOR you. But some people are extremely lazy and would rather a machine did everything for them. I hope they inherit that world and not me.