A take on TIA that bucks the opinion trend and focuses on the KDD and IR aspects of TIA. Written by Howard Bloom, author of Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind. Wired 11.04: VIEW
Quote -- "One of TIA's component programs, Genisys, aims to totally reinvent the database, increasing its usefulness and its contents by an order of magnitude. It will be the database of databases, with an add-on "Babblefish" able to parse and cross-reference every possible information stream. The most ambitious TIA initiative, Genoa II, is working to produce cognitive amplifiers - a symbiotic thinking system that weaves together human and machine intelligences more tightly than ever before."