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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."
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @04:08AM
What you fear is entirely what the social justice warrior desires most. They crave the death of individual exceptionalism. You could have a doctor of incredible skill, and then have 10 doctors of lessor skill than the first, but a more appropriate gender or race, and they would make such a monster of the first person.
Doctor Strange would never exist in a SJW world, unless he was a female muslim.
To put it another way that might resonate with nerds here, they are the White Wolf Technocracy. They desire the world to be a static, wholly measurable thing that is never, ever without civil planning and development. They reduce everything to static values, and forever demand that everyone else does the same to fit their personal dogma. They are the disease that occurs when you unleash the internet upon undeveloped minds.