The Internet is a kind of super organism. It dissolves national boundaries, it dissolves class controls, religious controls, it creates a holistic organism. It may not be that its going to make the world better for white, male intellectuals. That may not be its purpose at all. It may be that it has an emergent telos of its own and that asking what its for would be like a beetle asking what its evolution is for. I think it will supersede us. I dont know how much monkey meat will be connected to the World Wide Web when the Web is complete. It may shed the monkey meat somewhere along the way. I look forward to a day when people will live on an ecologically balanced earth: a few hundred million healthy, well-fed, intelligent people who will appear to be physically at a very aboriginal level of cultural expression, but if you could transpose yourself into the body of one of these people you would immediately notice that when they close their eyes, there are menus hanging in space, and those menus are the interface to the cultural dimension, which is not to be seen or touched anywhere but in the mind. Not my mind, but collective mind. The World Wide Web could be a seed for the creation of a global telepathic collectivity. ~ Terence McKenna, The Evolutionary Mind: Trialogues at the Edge of the Unthinkable 1998
Posted on: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:21:02 +0000