2015考研英语阅读集中练：electronic skin

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    2015考研英语阅读集中练：electronic skin
   
    Planet Earth will do an electronic skin in the not-too-distance future. It
will use the internet as a scaffold to transmit its sensations. This skin is
being stitched together. It consists of millions of electronic measuring
devices, such as thermostats, pollution detectors, cameras, EKGs. These will
probe and monitor cities and endangered species, the atmosphere, and our ships,
highway vehicles, and our bodies. For a decade or longer there will be no
central nervous system to manage this vast signaling network. And there will be
no central intelligence. But we believe that some qualities of self-awareness
will emerge once the Net is sensually enhanced and emulated the complexity of
the human brain.
    Sensuality is only one force pushing the Net toward intelligence. An eerie
symbiosis of human and machine effort is also starting to evolve. The Internet
creates a channel for thousands of programmers around the world to collaborate
on software development and debugging. Through collaboration, this community can
push past the technical barriers to machine intelligence.
    And though silicon networks today look nothing like the brain, nodes of the
Net have begun to function as neuron. Researchers have already tackled complex
computing problems, such as interpreting interstellar radio signals with about a
million PCs working in concert. Before long, discrete microprocessors will
probably be knitted together into ad hoc distributed computers. Don’t think of
these as PC networks. The terminals would just as likely be cell phones of
palm-like devices, each one far smarter than today’s heftiest desktops. We may
think of this as a whole ecology, an information environment that’s massively
connected.
    Humanity is now preparing to cast its net across the solar system. At a
NASA laboratory in California, scientists are devising a version of the Internet
called Inter Planet that will weave the moon, Mars, and some asteroids and
comets into the earth’s expanding nervous system.
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