We've come a long
way from the hunter-gatherers we used to be—at least that's what we're
told.
We've formed
ourselves into groups, and groups of groups, so we live in a complex society
now. We've achieved a sometimes
inspiring level of culture in the arts, uncovered some intriguing technologies
through science, and are in the process of initiating a spiritual synthesis
that may hold great promise, depending on how we handle it.
That's the good
news.
INFOMANIA
We've also collected
a mass of externalized information and experience (for what it's worth
empirically) particularly over the last century or so and most notably in the
past few years. But with this veritable
Everest of data now online and at our fingertips we should pause for a moment
to think about what we're going to do with it.
There are repercussions to blindly assimilating raw data.
