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3c: The Great Google in the Sky (Kevin Kelly and Ken Wilber - Exploring the Technium)

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Channel: Integral Life · 2009 · Science & Technology

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Every second we are becoming more and more interconnected, our experiences and perceptions woven together by the electronic nervous system of the web.  Sometimes it feels like a "third hemisphere" of our own brains, a chaotic hive mind which, when we disconnect from it for too long, can begin to make us feel lobotomized.  All our perspectives, interpretations, interactions, and behaviors—even the momentary minutia of our twittered interiors—all cast digital reflections in the One Machine, binary prayers to the Great Google in the Sky. 

Is it possible that this emerging consciousness shall completely subsume us, humanity itself becoming the substrate for a radically new form of intelligence?  Would each of us become an individual node in the electronic Overmind, as thoughts from a higher organism are somehow pushed through our own—tiny synchronicities of information that can be felt, but never understood from our link in the chain of consciousness?  And could we even begin trying to decipher what those thoughts might be?


About Kevin Kelly:

Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He helped launch Wired in 1993, and served as its Executive Editor until January 1999. He is currently editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets 1 million visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers' Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. He authored the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy and the classic book on decentralized emergent systems, Out of Control.

About Ken Wilber:

Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages, and is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his Collected Works published while still alive. Wilber is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development, which continues to gather momentum around the world. His many books, all of which are still in print, can be found at Amazon.com. Some of his more popular books include Integral Spirituality; No Boundary; Grace and Grit; Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; and the "everything" books: A Brief History of Everything (one of his largest selling books) and A Theory of Everything (probably the shortest introduction to his work).  Ken Wilber is the founder of Integral Institute, Inc. and the co-founder of Integral Life, Inc.

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