Dear Friends:It has now been estimated that membership on Facebook, the popular internet social medium, is large enough that if it were to declare itself a country, Facebook would be the SIXTH largest nation on the Planet. Cyberspace has neither geological nor temporal barriers -- it might just be that place where the "Collective Consciousness" potentiates reaching its critical mass, and perceivable changes in reality actually occur.
The individuals comprising the world's vast population are beginning to more closely resemble the cells in a giant organism. This is either for better (I hope), or for worse. In either case, the movement in this sociological and psychological direction is indisputable.
Faithfully,
Douglas Castle
p.s. Why not click on the picture in the upper right-hand corner, and see it in its full-sized glory?
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1 comment:
Darwin must be smiling in his grave. Our society is certainly evolving and social networking is a prime catalyst. The evolution of telephones and computers has been dramatic in the last fifty years, but, right now, that evolution is accelerating to lightning speed. Can we, as a society, keep up? We are getting very close to being "connected" AT ALL TIMES - both to ALL other people and to ALL information. It won't be long before we all have a chip imbedded in us to allow permanent connection (to the internet and Twitter like capabilities). The problem is that the technology will be there BEFORE we have figured out how to manage/control it, as well as, manage/control the obvious privacy implications. A major portion of the stimulus dollars should go to R&D the future security infrastructure required to address this.
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