What some people expect will happen, from a review of another book:
In “Why the West Rules, For Now,” his excellent and amusing survey of the last 70,000 years or so of human history, Ian Morris discusses an event we can look forward to in 2045: the Singularity, “effectively merging carbon-and-silicon based intelligence into a single global consciousness. . . . We will transcend biology, evolving into a new, merged being as far ahead of homo sapiens as a contemporary human is of the individual cells that merge to create his or her body.”
via Sherry Turkle’s meditation on technology, “Alone Together”.
And all of us cells will be united, by, what, Facebook?
This, of course, is basically the premise of Gaia worship, which says that we already are all just cells of the organism Earth. It also makes a great worldview for totalitarianism.
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