The Future Of Telecommunications And Geospatial Solutions

If telecommunications and geospatial solutions continue along their current trends, human society will soon be communicating with each on such a huge and fast scale, we may as well be thought of as making up still larger minds and beings. Physical location will be irrelevant. We have tribal instincts that cause us to band to together, and combine that with ever increasing communicative abilities, and the tribes just get larger and larger.

As a species, we have always wanted to gather together in order to survive and flourish. We have an instinct to follow leaders. Even those leaders have this instinct, and look to others, or at least the ideas of others, to lead them. We think like one mind when we’ve put our heads together. We oftentimes play one tribe off the other, so our own tribes can learn from their mistakes and we can broaden our own means of growing and interacting.

There was a time when long distance calls from Yellowknife to Sydney were nothing more than disembodied voices that were separated by gaps between the speaking, as the information was passed along the globe. Then, those pauses became shorter and vanished altogether. Soon, screens gave those voices faces. If you were in Yellowknife, you could talk to people in Sydney like they were right there in the room!

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.

Of course, this is already happening. However, when large enough amounts of spatial data can be sent at fast enough speeds, it will be possible at a much larger scale. The more information we can communicate faster, groups of people will come together that do not require any physical space of their own to exist.

If left long enough, there will only be a select number of groups of people on the planet, all communicating with each other so fast and so effectively, they all think alike when seen on the scale of the groups themselves. They are still individuals of course, but their thinking is nuanced exactly the same. The groups gain their own characteristics that play off other groups, until they each merge with each other or drive each other away to grow and increase within themselves.

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.

We will have created them ourselves from the materials in the planet. The ultimate future of telecommunications and geospatial solutions is humans becoming more and more a part of something that is always getting larger.

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