If telecommunications and geospatial solutions continue along their current trends, human society will soon be communicating with each on such a huge and fast scale, we may as well be thought of as making up still larger minds and beings. Physical location will be irrelevant. We have tribal instincts that cause us to band to together, and combine that with ever increasing communicative abilities, and the tribes just get larger and larger.
Because we have a tribal instinct, we always want to gather together for survival and success. We have an instinct to follow leaders, and even those leaders have their instincts to follow those that came before. When we gather together, our minds think alike. We then play the other tribes off one another, and benefit from their mistakes and learning from their problems.
There was a time when long distance calls from Yellowknife to Sydney were nothing more than disembodied voices that were separated by gaps between the speaking, as the information was passed along the globe. Then, those pauses became shorter and vanished altogether. Soon, screens gave those voices faces. If you were in Yellowknife, you could talk to people in Sydney like they were right there in the room!
So of course now, the idea is to improve upon this so much that the information itself can be transmitted faster, large chunks of data, communicated from a ski lift in Whistler to an alley in Toronto. No longer will it be limited to offices and homes. Wherever you are located on the globe, you will be able to receive this information quickly. Your physical location will cease to matter entirely. Eventually after that, it will be so normal that people will feel like they’re in the same room, even though they’re all over the map!
Of course, this has all come to pass already. But the idea is that as data streams and communication grow, what has already come to pass will become possible on an ever-larger scale. Soon, groups that require no space on the earth as their own, will have become more important than those who do.
If this happens for a long enough time, only a few of these huge new groups will exist at all on the planet. They would be communicating with each other so fast and effectively, that the people that make them up might as well be considered to be thinking alike. They would still have their individuality of course, but now their thinking will be nuanced in such a way that their thinking is the same when viewed from the scale of the group. The groups will then take on their own distinctions and become individual thinkers themselves.
While all this has been happening, the planet itself will be consolidated even more into the functionable apparatus that sustains all the people, so they can interact as one in their groups. From a large enough perspective, parts of the Earth will be like the giant bodies of these new groups. Similar in scale to one celled organisms, these groups will be like their own living thing, consuming other groups and resources for their own sustenance.
Telecommunications and geospatial solutions will evolve so much that it will effectively merge the minds of everyone on the planet. Data will be so instant and readily available that it will basically be in everyone’s thoughts at once.
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