Human Evolution – We’ve Already Gone Much Further than We Know
11 August 2018 (Wall Street International)* – Throughout recorded history, humans have been a tribal species, whether nomadic or local. It is your tribe with whom you travel, identify and to whom you come home. Sometimes you fight for them against other tribes.
The Internet has changed all that and, in a cultural moment, we are perhaps in the most significant paradigm shift since amphibious creatures walked out of the water.
In a second, anyone can be connected to anyone, friend or stranger, on the planet.
This permits us to form new friendships, make new enemies and argue insistently about something that we would not have known until the news came on to one of the black and white (I know this is going far back) TV channels that served mostly urban and well-off families.