Metaplanar Babel

I just read an interesting article talking about the evolution of the internet into what a lot of people call “Web 2.0″. Lot of interesting bits of information, though the emphasis on software that learns and collective intelligence makes me think, “is this how true AI is going to come about?” Maybe that’s Google’s plan to take over the world; think about it, an AI with immediate access to the biggest database of information in the world and the algorithms that run it. The article compares the web’s growth to the growth of a human’s psyche net several times - how long, then, til the net’s psyche becomes self-aware?