Some days I wake up and I can see the world-organism. An entire planetary system breathing and eating and thinking. I can feel the long, slow pulse of each day.
The internet is a grand experiment, and it increasingly reminds me of this image of the world organism. As humans, we need to converse to think. The world is too complex for one mind. The internet allows us to converse across boundaries, to broaden the scale of our thinking and knowledge. We are creating a single mind on a planetary scale.
We feel like individuals, but how separate can we ever truly be? We are inescapably connected. Now more than ever.