However, when we pull back, we notice that humanity, collectively, as
a species-being, seems to be acting in the manner that imitates
processes we often find in biological evolution — in fetal development,
for example. Over the last centuries, we first linked the world together
via trade routes, highways, and so on. Then we built a communications
infrastructure that meshes the world together continuously, as if we are
developing a global brain. The power of technology has temporarily
hypnotized many of us, leading to a popular belief that technological
development, in itself, constitutes humanity’s purpose, even if
super-intelligent machines eventually replace us....<<<Read More>>>....
