RE: How Far Is the World to Connect to a Hive?
It will be revolutionary to have enhancements to be connected to the internet. Everything within our reach with just a thought. When this becomes the norm we will no longer be asked about facts in school but theories and understanding.
Why does this have to happen to produce a shift in schooling paradigm?
I don't say it won't, because it might, and as I mention in the post, it might go even further to create mind-to-mind connections in a hive-like setup. But information is now at the fingertip of any teenager. Why should it still be the main focus of school processes now?
That's true about enhancements. They are presented as benefits that you'd be a fool to pass on. Like nanites to monitor and improve your health, or which improve the memory. Who wouldn't want to be healthier and have a better memory, right?
The question is: do you improve and leave out more and more of the humanity, as we perceive it now, or refuse and remain in the "stone age" compared to those that will? I'm pretty sure there will be people in both categories, at least at first.
I believe progress is unstoppable, even when it comes to our body (or mind). Maybe the solution would be genetic, maybe on the cyborg side. Oh boy, how "cyborg" sounds!
I have mixed feelings about them, I must say, even if I understand and usually look forward to future developments.
I meant in the perspective an individual gaining such enhancements. To look up facts with a single thought would be trivial. In a sense we would know everything but does a person understand it? As a collective we would. If we take the summation of all of what we know and extrapolate new fundamentals, new understandings of what could be, it could push us closer towards a signularity as we continue to push the boundaries of our understanding with new discoveries day by day. It would be fascinating if we gain such understanding of the universe with a collective mind we become like "the Q" masters of the Continuum.
I would hope technology and furthering our understanding of nature would lead to our immortality and no one would have to die. We would control the cycles of death and rebirth. I really look forward to transhumanism and the general milestones that will lift our civilization and culture. It would be nice to have some degree of a hive mind, it would end all disputes and all the conflicts hopefully overnight. It would also be something if we were as connected with the wildlife of the globle. We would be part of a global entity o.o lol I think I played too much Civilization Beyond Earth. Sorry if my ramblings are off
Nah, they are entertaining and you seem an incurable optimist. So, you're ready to give up your SELF to the hive for the greater (potential) good?
Lol we are Borg. we are the hive ^0^