HyperConnectivity

Well, today is the last day of 2009. What a journey it has been! We have seen such water under the bridges of our lives, such that we could never have imagined before. There are things and ideas in place now that even fifteen, twenty years ago we would never have thought of.

The increasing rate of connectivity has become a crazy spiralling avalanche descending on us with increasing volume. We are connected now in ways that even the science fiction writers, those wise-men of future things-to-be had dared not envisage.

What fuels this incredibly dizzying ride of connectivity we are on is our own intense desire to be connected. Faster better stronger longer higher shorter wider thinner - we are barrelling down the highway to super-connectivity at such a pace that we won't even have the opportunity to blink when we pass that point. And then, from Super- to Hyper-Connectivity.

At some point (presumably) our technology will fail us. Electrons can only be whipped faster to a certain point, even light-speed computation won't satisfy us for long. We need to look beyond the nuts and bolts of our current thinking and look for different ways to satisfy the powerful urge to communicate.

I often muse that we won't really be satisfied until we gain the ability to communicate at the speed of thought, the speed of predictive instant-icity. Yes, I just made that up, but probably that's the result of trying to describe something that doesn't yet exist.

Someplace somewhere recently I was reading that the human brain communicates at hyper-speed. The point of the article (Note-to-self: must dig that one out again) was that the physical properties of our neurones and the synaptic reactions were limited to the physical/chemical properties of the nerves etc. themselves. The point being that our thinking is faster than the physical properties of our bodies could sustain.

Simply put, we think faster than our bodies should allow us to.

Certainly, someone, somewhere will figure out the mechanics (quantum or otherwise) of this enigma. But the analogy is hidden in there. We long for, we yearn and strive for that same kind of connectivity with others which we experience inside our own minds.

Effectively, we yearn for an almost telepathic connectivity. Who was it that said "Everything Old is New again..."?

Imagine a world where the Internet was instantly accessible. Perhaps not the WWW as we know it now. What if, for instance, we could plug into the echoes Plato, Socrates, Tesla, Einstein, you, me - the world?

If we are all drops in an ocean of reality, surely we must be able to connect with one another in some way other than through mechanistic playthings? Surely, a "meeting of the minds" must be possible?

Perhaps we are paving the way for this with our toys and machinery. Perhaps we are creating a consciousness of connectivity that is pushing us into Hyper-Connectivity. And, methinks, if I am connected to you in a way that is as intimate and immediate as that which I can envisage, perhaps then I will understand you, and you will understand me.

Perhaps that Hyper-Connectivity will enable us to become the Creative Genii (Geniuses) that we truly are. Perhaps when we cannot hide in compartmentalised secrecy, wars and misunderstandings and deceit can no longer stand in the light of Hyper-Connectivity.

What a world would that be! Bring it on, bring it strong! I'm up for it right now - so where do I plug in?

What a way to burst into 2010! I can't wait!