Life As A Cell

Robert Wright feels that "technology is weaving humans into electronic webs that resemble big
brains." He doesn't think it "outlandish to talk about us being, increasingly, neurons in a giant superorganism":

I do think we ultimately have to embrace a superorganism of some kind— not because it's inevitable, but because the alternative is worse. Iftechnological progress grinds to a halt, it will be because chaos hasengulfed the world; and if we don't use technology to weave peopletogether and...