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posted by mrpg on Wednesday March 29 2017, @02:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the good-for-me dept.

Humanity is in the early stages of the most significant evolution in its history: learning to think as a species.

This is the linking of human minds, values, information and solutions at lightspeed and in real time around the planet, via the internet and social media, says science writer Julian Cribb.

Global thought is opening the way to solve some of humanity's greatest threats – including climate change, famine, global poisoning, weapons of mass destruction, environmental collapse, resource scarcity and overpopulation, says Mr Cribb, who is the author of 'Surviving the 21st Century' (Springer 2017), a new book describing the ten mega-threats and what can be done about them.

"Thanks to the internet and social media, people are for the first time communicating across the barriers of language, race, nationality, religion, region and gender. While the internet contains much rubbish and malignance, it also contains huge amounts of goodwill, trustworthy science-based advice, practical solutions to problems – and people joining hands in good causes."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:14AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:14AM (#485640)

    The format of this information doesn't match with the content. It seems we need to buy the book ($24.99) just to find out the list of ten threats. Why not make a torrent or just put up an all text page?

  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:30AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @03:30AM (#485646)

    Luckily, the lightspeed human mind real time cooperative managed to get it done for him:

    https://demonoid.pw/files/details/3474802/ [demonoid.pw]

    • (Score: 1) by butthurt on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:10AM

      by butthurt (6141) on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:10AM (#485667) Journal

      The ten weird things, from that link:

      1. mass extinction
      2. resource depletion
      3. weapons of mass destruction
      4. climate change
      5. universal toxicity
      6. food crises
      7. population and urban expansion
      8. pandemic disease
      9. dangerous new technologies
      10. self-delusion