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The goal of the Planetary Nervous System is to create an open, public, intelligent software layer on top of the “Internet of Things” as the basic information infrastructure for the emerging digital societies of the twenty-first century.
This chapter first appeared as FuturICT blog on September 23, 2014, see http://futurict.blogspot.de/2014/09/creating-making-planetary-nervous.html , and is reproduced here with minor stylistic improvements.
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Helbing, D. (2015). Creating (“Making”) a Planetary Nervous System as Citizen Web. In: Thinking Ahead - Essays on Big Data, Digital Revolution, and Participatory Market Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15078-9_13
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