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We will see. The technology for such a thing is not all that far fetched. Some will probably want to do it, others will likely stay outside that network.

Kind of like the Edenists from Peter Hamilton books.

Nope. Telepathy would not be a blessing but a curse.

I don't see this ending well at all.

Look at democracies of today, where we struggle to balance "tyranny of the majority" every day. Imagine a world where the rest of the world knew your every thought and sought to root out anything deemed objectionable by the masses. Everything would be subject to inspection: your fantasies, your pet peeves, possibly even your dreams and nightmares. I'll keep my privacy, thanks.

Ultimately I feel any such fate would strip away our freedoms, and possibly even our humanity. In a world where every thought is shared, I don't see how we could avoid the creation of a semi-sentient "overmind" that controls everything, a product of groupthink where individuality is worn away.

it would end badly as you would have some people who would refuse to go on the grid. Also you cant have the mind depending on such a link because well you do not want people going crazy when the internet goes down.

People would find ways to evade the system, homes built like Faraday cages and such.

Almost nothing can make the world peaceful because humans by nature are violent. Even if everybody had a Star Trek style replicator people would just replicate guns to shoot each other. Perfect the electric car and cheap home scale fusion and the entire middle east will implode into total civil war because the Oil Gravy Train would stop.

Also, speaking of the mind.... http://i49.tinypic.com/2z6fqmv.jpg

or for the galaxy, we would likely figure out space travel pretty quickly fully unified.... and then shred the galaxy into a burning ruin as we went planet to planet stripping it of resources to feed the endless need of cheap **** at walmarts.

Nuke the whales!

Didn't know the game had a gay ending in it.

Hahahahahahahahaahahah! No.

Here are some problems with World Peace:
a) Limited resources are limited. If there's only enough food for 80% of the hive mind to survive, how do you choose the 20%? And how quietly will the 20% go into the darkness?

b) People lie to themselves and delude themselves quite often. How many sociopaths would be in the hive mind? Also, people who take Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck seriously would be in the hive mind as well.

c) Borg effect, as brought up previously. Domineering/charismatic personalities would remain domineering/charismatic in the hive mind.

d) Irreconcilable differences- If 50% of the hive mind is pro-life and 50% is pro-choice, what does that do to World Peace?

e) Life is strife. We make constant and difficult choices, opinions, impressions, etc.. IMO, if World Peace existed then *everyone* would have the same opinion, which means everyone would think the same, which means Humanity would be *boring* and stagnant.


World Peace is a tough (impossible?) problem to solve. The method that has the best success would be StoicFaux's patented "if you eliminate the problem, there's no need for a solution" method of problem solving. For example, instead of solving world peace or world hunger, you simply nerve gas the planet. World Peace and World Hunger would no longer be problems, thus there would be no need to solve them.

Stop promoting Skynet!