Wow! Awesome, man. Badged on general principle, but I'll read this like I have been promising to read everything you've posted lately.
Just read it -- sort of a rehashed spin of your global brain stuff, but for a much broader audience. I've had tons and tons of thoughts on these lines in the last few years. I always find myself making the argument to friends, faculty, whoever, that history is a continuum and that we aren't at any sort of apogee, that's a trick of humanocentrism -- but the internet truly makes me wonder if I'm wrong and that we have turned a corner. So I'm on both sides, and I can't wait for the future; it's never been so exciting.
I think this is definitely we can both agree on :)I can't wait for the future; it's never been so exciting.