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.

The human species has a tribal instinct. We naturally want to congregate and work together to survive. We naturally want to follow a leader, and even the leaders have their own ideas or even figures of their own that they follow. When we put our heads together, we think alike. When we play different tribes off each other, we benefit by learning from their mistakes and gradually broaden our means to grow and interact.

There was once a time when talking on the phone from Vancouver to Tokyo consisted of two or more disembodied voices and a long separation between them as the information was broadcast along the planet’s surface. After a while, the pause improved until it was gone all together. Then, with the advent of screens the voices gained faces. It was like that person in Tokyo was right there in Vancouver with you.

The next step, obviously, is to improve communication so much, that people everywhere, not just in offices, can communicate as if they are in the same room. There will be no more need to place importance on where a person is located physically on the globe. Instantly exchange ideas with people from all over, all while sitting on a chairlift in Whistler, or crouched in an alleyway in Toronto. Soon after that, it will become so commonplace that people from all over the globe might as well be in the same room.

This is all happening now, of course. But when even larger amounts of spatial data can be sent even quicker, it will make this possible on an ever-growing scale. The faster and quicker we can communicate the most information, the larger those new groups that require no physical space of their own will grow.

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.

The final future of telecommunications and geospatial solutions is that it will create mass cultures of humans that will eventually come to behave as their own organisms.

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