Art Bell's 'Quickening' Intro-Preface on this theme It came to me that as human population became and is becoming more dense per capita, per square mile the more by both technical and organic means we're in a network of ever-increasing instantaneousness. What in the less-connected days that was speculation, rumor, and hear-say is now captured, archived, and memorialized for us to tangibly and empirically know about than before. It's not the end-days as millennialists or the proverbial 'street corner prophet' would testify, but it is getting to the point of an artificial technical (and an insightful, back-engineered organic) revolution of consciousness we're headed for soon, if not in this or the next scores of years of time. What we now see through the mass and personal media devices, we'll know in a simultaneous, visceral manner per our capabilities. To think that we could not only know, but feel an experience as remote as across the globe or, ...
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