20070521

The Hive Mind
Ira Cohen Akashic Project
BeeHive Hypertext/ Hypermedia Literary Journal
"Bombay Boogie Woogie"

Jack Kerouac, while walking down a street at night,
glancing into living rooms illuminated by a gray glare of
television sets,
noted that we have become a society of
people "thinking the same thoughts at the same time."

Draft of a government report says we will alter human
evolution within 20years by combining what we know
of nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT, and cognitive sciences.

The 405 page report sponsored by the US National Science Foundation
and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human
Performance, calls for a broad-based research program to improve performance
leading to telepathy, machine to human, human to machine communication
amplified personal sensory devices and enhanced intellectual capacity.

People will be able to download their consciousness into computers or other
bodies even on the other side of the solar system, or participate in a giant
"HIVE MIND," a network of intelligences connected through ultra fast
communications networks.

Professional societies should be open to other fields, the report continues
"The success of this convergent-technologies priority is crucial to the
future of humanity,"
wtec/ConvergeningTechnology/Report/NBIC-pre-publication.pdf
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/MultimediaFiles/Live/FullReport/5886.pdf


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