The Future Of Telecommunications And Geospatial Solutions

What will this world become if telecommunications and geospatial solutions continue on their current path? What will happen to human society when communicating with one another makes concerns over physical location irrelevant? Our tribal instincts make us band together, and the ease of communicating today makes this instinct even more pronounced, until communication becomes so simple, we no longer can be separate.

As a species, we have always wanted to gather together in order to survive and flourish. We have an instinct to follow leaders. Even those leaders have this instinct, and look to others, or at least the ideas of others, to lead them. We think like one mind when we’ve put our heads together. We oftentimes play one tribe off the other, so our own tribes can learn from their mistakes and we can broaden our own means of growing and interacting.

There was a time when long distance calls from Yellowknife to Sydney were nothing more than disembodied voices that were separated by gaps between the speaking, as the information was passed along the globe. Then, those pauses became shorter and vanished altogether. Soon, screens gave those voices faces. If you were in Yellowknife, you could talk to people in Sydney like they were right there in the room!

So of course now, the idea is to improve upon this so much that the information itself can be transmitted faster, large chunks of data, communicated from a ski lift in Whistler to an alley in Toronto. No longer will it be limited to offices and homes. Wherever you are located on the globe, you will be able to receive this information quickly. Your physical location will cease to matter entirely. Eventually after that, it will be so normal that people will feel like they’re in the same room, even though they’re all over the map!

Of course, this has all come to pass already. But the idea is that as data streams and communication grow, what has already come to pass will become possible on an ever-larger scale. Soon, groups that require no space on the earth as their own, will have become more important than those who do.

Eventually, there will only be so many of these groups left, their inner communications so fast and so efficient, the people among them may very well be thought of as thinking alike. On that scale, they all do. Of course, individuality on a personal scale will be preserved, but as long as the nuances of their thinking are similar enough, their thoughts as they pertain to the group will be the same. Now, the group is another individual, the average of all the people, and those groups will either merge together or drive away each other.

What will become of the physical space of the planet’s surface after it no longer needs to be divided up by human tribes? It becomes covered with the physical means to sustain humans so they can communicate virtually. It becomes, when viewed from a large enough perspective, like a few bodies for the groups themselves.

Telecommunications and geospatial solutions will evolve so much that it will effectively merge the minds of everyone on the planet. Data will be so instant and readily available that it will basically be in everyone’s thoughts at once.

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