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Neither Google nor the Internet will decide who we are and where we are going. It is the evolution of human consciousness. In politics, the people decided the old ways did not work any longer so they voted for drastic change——a significant giant step in human consciousness. It's the gift the Founders gave us to use when we finally awakened from our snooze.
In technology, both Google and the Internet provide infinite resources whose processes originated from the creativity of human intelligence. These resources will continue to advance beyond the imagination of most of us alive today. As technology progresses, the Internet's dross will fall away, or will continue as a source of humor for the new milleniums. What we found funny they do not, and vice versa.
In science, our outer space discoveries are still in their infancy. Do you ever consider why we have a space program? Who can be bothered with what's out there when we can't even deal with what's right here? That's because we won't have to. The next generation will. There are people whose lives are entirely focussed on out there.
If we can slow down for a moment, take a look back in history, it's easy to see how the evolution of human consciousness is a process; and the process is speeding up. Pastor Rick Warren, a Southern Baptist with strong views about gay rights and abortion and other stuff, is giving the Invocation at the Presidential Inauguration. This two minute event has opened a historic dialog inconceivable just one year ago. Another result of waking up from our snooze, of "disagreeing without being disagreeable."
Google isn't making us smart or dumb. The Internet isn't liberating anything. It's never anything outside ourselves. Haven't you noticed we are producing more conscious children? They are more beautiful and more brilliant then ever. It's us. Humanity is liberating itself.
Cheers!
