In my first post on future consciousness, I spoke of what
may be coming into play in the next phase of our evolution. What’s at stake is
what it means to be human. We may be changing into something new – whether better
or worse remains to be seen. The
problem is that technology is accelerating everything and the ultimate outcome
is obscure. We know that it is
changing our climate. There are
more subtle changes. Technology is wiping out time and space, eroding the
difference between real, unreal, and surreal.
And think for a moment about this. An unknown (‘dark’) energy is increasing
the rate of expansion of the universe; but something analogous is happening, as
technology creates an explosion of information, which in turn is altering our
consciousness. It looks to me like
a spectacular synchronicity of cosmos and consciousness.