Singularity? That’s a pretty geeky word isn’t it? If you are familiar with it at all, you’re probably an astrophysicist or an astronomy/sci-fi buff. But what does it mean to bloggers? You are creating a new era by creating global, collective, shared, intelligence.

Reason Magazine has a fantastic article with futurists regarding the possibility of a major positive upheaval in the structure of society, due to our growing interconnectedness.

From the article:

There is a national interest, and not just in America, in providing the illusion of freedom for the millions of people who need to be happy and creative to make the economy go. Those people are more diverse and distributed and resourceful and even coordinated than any government.

That’s a power we already have in free markets. Computer networks, supporting data
and social networks, give this trend an enormous boost. In the end that illusion of freedom may have to be more like the real thing than any society has ever achieved in the past, something that could satisfy a new kind of populism, a populism powered by deep knowledge, self-interest so broad as to reasonably be called tolerance, and an automatic, preternatural vigilance.