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(REYKJAVIK, Iceland– April 6, 2047) The international consortium KnowNow today announced the completion of @Earth, their daring plan to move beyond the Internet. The organization’s leader, Sindri Baldursdóttir, announced the details at a press conference in Reykjavik, home of the headquarters of the organization. “Utilizing well established technologies such as cloud computing and array shift, we have initiated @Earth. As of today, knowledge belongs to everyone,” Baldursdóttir stated.

The @Earth project started eleven years ago. Their goal was to create a rudimentary artificial intelligence, (known as AI,) which would monitor a wide variety of resources to create an easily navigated knowledge source. The launch of the system today initiated the AI and made it available to subscribers. “Initially,” Baldursdóttir continued, “@Earth will be available to patrons of the project. Ultimately, it will be freely available to all residents of planet Earth.”

The inaugural version of @Earth will be accessed using the controversial Brain Computer Interface (or BCI) technology, the iSee. “The Brain Computer Interface is the logical way to access @Earth. Using this technology, a user’s brain is effectively extended into the AI,” Baldursdóttir remarked. The iSee, brainchild of technological giant AM, is the acknowledged market leader in this field.

@Earth could spell the end of Google based search paradigms. Sources in KnowNow confirm that a search in their system will be more akin to finding memories thought lost. “Our technology uses the natural patterns of the brain itself to find data,” said a KnowNow official. “We will no longer be limited by technology but rather travel at the speed of thought. Knowledge will become instant.” Google officials had no comment.

Critics were quick to react. Robert Moran of the private think tank Sensible said in a later interview, “The AI is an ill-conceived and dangerous concept. It has untold and unknown cognitive powers which could conceivably threaten our entire planet. Releasing it into the wild is ill-conceived.” Moran has been an outspoken critic of @Earth from its inception.

@Earth is transmitted globally by using a network of satellites. KnowNow has leased some three dozen of these orbital outposts that are strategically located. These are joined in an outer space network which provides coverage anywhere on Earth. The satellites receive a data stream from KnowNow transmission stations. There are seven such stations located on each major continent.