Evolution: The Next Step
The human race has come a long way in the past 10,000 years. It has gone from simple migratory hunting and gathering to engineering massive new structures on other worlds. Humanity has come from primal instinct to asking the most brain racking questions in the great many fields of science and philosophy. We have moved on from basic bone and stone tools and on to microscopic machines and supercomputers to do work we previously found impossible. The point being that over the many eons of existence, humans have evolved, adapted, invented to and with the world around them in order to solve their problems. So where do we go from there? Considering the many previous “greatest inventions and ideas in human history”? They were all things that changed entire generations, how we think, interact with one another, and even live every aspect of our day to day lives. The new goal is to find that next thing or idea that thrusts us into a new age. One question still burns. How? The greatest leap we must make in order to move forward is to bridge the technological gap on global scale. Unifying the people of Earth under one great technology umbrella is precursor to all other steps. With the world in its current state of multiple third world countries, where many of the people are computer illiterate, progress can never be made. In order to advance, we must do it as a species, not one nation above another and so forth. Everyone must move forward and come to a minimal level of understanding when it comes to computers. They must all be educated to a degree that would now be considered higher level understanding. Once this massive undertaking has been achieved, then can we move on to the next stage in a plan that transcends world peace. Technology right now is merging with us more rapidly than ever before. Google glasses, phones that go with us everywhere, biotic implants and so on have put us on a converging path that will lead to eventual cohesion. This stage is convergence, the bringing together of humanity and technology, cyborgs if you will. This is where things like solid state drives will replace the human brain in storage space and CPUs in processing power. The brain will not be altogether removed, but enhanced. This enhancement will make people more capable of retaining and understanding massively larger amounts than ever before. Our species will become intelligent on a scale like we have never imagined before. The merging of computer components with the average person’s brain will bring us to the highest intelligence, productivity, and all around functionality to be envied by the shadows of our past selves. These kinds of beings will be the evolutionary link to further plans Networking is one of the final nails in the coffin that is transcendence into new existence. Human minds will be linked together, in increasingly larger and larger numbers, to form hosts that can house multiple entities of consciousness. Imagine 1000 different people all working together in a single body at speeds never before thought of. Individuality would of course still exist, but be trumped by existentiality. Networking multiple consciousnesses would allow major scientific, philosophical, and political issues to be processed and handled in minutes or even seconds. It would be as if the think tanks created with the greatest minds in any particular area had been multiplied one hundred fold and given endless capabilities. With human networking, the need for multiple bodies would eventually become unnecessary and obsolete. That is what brings us to the final step Imagine a large sphere, floating in space, made only of incomprehensibly large hard drives and unimaginably fast processors. Imagine it being slightly smaller than