[ColanR]

> combining our knowledge from disparate fields and the indicators are truly that it's much more insidious than anyone can possibly imagine

What are you specifically referring to here? QM?

[freeflight]

The Internet and the www?

It's given humanity somewhat of a global consciousness, but not everything that comes out of that is benign or benevolent.

[artsyca]

It's turning into the abyss that gazes back at us --

[artsyca]

In general! We're applying all sorts of ideas across various fields. Genetic algorithms, artificial intelligence. Mathematical approximations of processes -- applications to societal control. - everywhere you look knowledge is accelerating and it's either going to lead to new enlightenment or a new dark age

[samplatt]

I like to think it's especially applicable to the modern age. The industrial age spelled doom of the environment and climate, and the (dis)information age executed it through the power of greed.

We pieced together all the disassociated information required for our own destruction... and the best part? It was totally and insidiously inevitable.