Information Freedom
The revolution that the internet has become was inevitable. Smaller networks like our brains interface with other brains via the internet. When information interacts with other information, new information emerges. For example, if we combined nanotechnology and genetics, we would arrive at a shell change procedure that was gradual and simple. Everybody knows everything. A lot of this information is repeated, but there are certain facts that only a few people know, unfortunately.
An optimal form of collective intelligence would be if every node (human) knew what every other human knew. This would mean the human network is fully interconnected. That means your interpretation of reality is publicly viewable, your thoughts and feelings available to all. The things you see and do would be what others see and do. This is where we are going. People don't want their privacy. Deep down they want to vindicate themselves and know that there are others out there like them.
Humans long to connect with each other. We will connect with each other faster and faster until our latency approaches zero and we all think as one. Imagine the things we could accomplish with 7 billion people working for the same thing with real-time communication with every other person, with their knowledge being yours. The internet is our best attempt at that. The internet will continue to evolve with us and eventually will become us.
To accomplish this, there can be no secrets, no patents, copyrights, intellectual property or any of that. Secrets hide bad things. People need to be held accountable for their secrets. People that keep secrets and withhold information are not doing society any good. Share your secrets and you will no longer be bound by them.
12.04.2009. 13:10
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