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 is already happening. However, when large enough amounts of spatial data can be sent at fast enough speeds, it will be possible at a much larger scale. The more information we can communicate faster, groups of people will come together that do not require any physical space of their own to exist.
Eventually, there will only be so many of these groups left, their inner communications so fast and so efficient, the people among them may very well be thought of as thinking alike. On that scale, they all do. Of course, individuality on a personal scale will be preserved, but as long as the nuances of their thinking are similar enough, their thoughts as they pertain to the group will be the same. Now, the group is another individual, the average of all the people, and those groups will either merge together or drive away each other.
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.
The final future of telecommunications and geospatial solutions is that it will create mass cultures of humans that will eventually come to behave as their own organisms.
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 is already happening. However, when large enough amounts of spatial data can be sent at fast enough speeds, it will be possible at a much larger scale. The more information we can communicate faster, groups of people will come together that do not require any physical space of their own to exist.
Eventually, there will only be so many of these groups left, their inner communications so fast and so efficient, the people among them may very well be thought of as thinking alike. On that scale, they all do. Of course, individuality on a personal scale will be preserved, but as long as the nuances of their thinking are similar enough, their thoughts as they pertain to the group will be the same. Now, the group is another individual, the average of all the people, and those groups will either merge together or drive away each other.
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.
The final future of telecommunications and geospatial solutions is that it will create mass cultures of humans that will eventually come to behave as their own organisms.
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