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This essay places the emerging brain-Internet interface within a broad historical context: that the Internet represents merely the next stage in a very long history of human cognition whereby the brain couples with symbolic technologies. Understanding this ´deep history´ provides a way to imagine the future of brain-Internet cognition.

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Acknowledgements Preface 1. Extend 2. Reconfigure 3. Query 4. Interface 5. Limit Conclude Notes Bibliography Index

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David J. Staley is Associate Professor of History and Adjunct Associate Professor of Design at The Ohio State University, USA.

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