The emergent properties of 8 billion people collaborating, with millions of technologies potentially coming together in some kind of synthesis, are just so rich in potential.
We were single-celled organisms — and entirely new possibilities emerged when that reality evolved into multicellular life. We were little tribes — and entirely new possibilities emerged with the rise of nation-states. I still don't think we properly appreciate what new realities have yet to unfold from the emergence of the internet, which literally opens up the possibility of collaboration between anyone, anywhere, with anyone else.
Things like nationalism are pushbacks against this move toward global coordination — but that resistance is likely temporary.
The potential here defies any reasonable calculation. It's as if single-celled organisms were trying to predict what multicellular life would become.
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