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Humans are "Learning to Think as a Species"

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

Phoenix666 writes:

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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• Wew lad Wew lad (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:00AM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:00AM (#485659)

  "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."

  Hahahaha, I guess the author finds totalitarianism attractive as long as he defines what rubbish and malignance is.

  If anything, the internet thought me to suspect everyone, one man's "goodwill, trustworthy science-based advice, practical solutions to problems" is another man's agenda pushing. We already have the power to devastate entire regions into the abyss out of "kindness", "humanitarian aid" and "peacekeeping". Call them what you will, doesn't change any of the outcomes.

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• Re:Wew lad (Score: 5, Insightful) by kaszz on Wednesday March 29 2017, @05:19AM

  by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday March 29 2017, @05:19AM (#485687) Journal

  Don't worry we already practice the road paved by good intentions by sending aid to bad people so they can stay in power and preventing people from dealing with aggressors by enforcing "peace".

  War is peace. Media agenda is freedom all else is hate. Mono thinking is diversity. Slavery is just. Taxes are nice. Race to the bottom is progress! :-)

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