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Originally Posted by speeder
The place where this theory hits the wall is with the advent of the internet, where in theory, everyone on earth has access to all information at the click of a mouse. The problem is that the web created communities within the larger community of country or town where people with similar pre-formed ideas were able to reinforce each other, no matter how factually challenged or ignorant those ideas might be.
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The internet is very much a nascent technology, with the smartphone as it's primary portal.
Who's to say that in the future humans won't get beyond the hit of dopamine that currently drives the need to seek these 'like communities', and find a compelling and satisfying reason to harness the collective intelligence of billions of people possessing all manner of strength and weakness, and evolve that awesome power into a single collective undertaking doing unimaginable things.