I worry more communication could be a problem until we can deal emotionally and compassionately with vastly greater interdependence — right now I think it is ca

I worry more communication could be a problem until we can deal emotionally and compassionately with vastly greater interdependence — right now I think it is causing significant compassion fatigue and fear: "Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our sense have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside. So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and superimposed co-existence." - Marshall McLuhan I think that the key to the next step in communication would have to be drastically more transhuman than the internet — telepathy will be rather trival compared to multithreaded cyborg thinking: first, there will be the ability to learn nigh instantly, using implants and interfaces, what once took real-time experience — this will destroy the education industry, "persuasion" as it is currently misconstrued, and hence the civilizing process as we know it as fast as the technology permeates; second, there will be thoughts never before possible — thoughts as shattered and reintegrated as a Kierkegaard's — passion and reason playing off each other, but both raised to new heights simultaneously. In the mind, medium and message are indistinguishable - thus telepathy requires more interesting minds to be of more interest.