I've been wanting to write a SciFi short story about this for years now. I expect that human-to-human communication will get faster and faster, especially once

I've been wanting to write a SciFi short story about this for years now. I expect that human-to-human communication will get faster and faster, especially once we get brain-to-computer implants. At that point at least from the outside making will be indistinguishable from a hive mind or even single lifeform made up of cells. On the other hand are we really that different from ants already? Maybe ants think of them last themselves as highly individualistic.