The Internet: A Montage of Humanity- It's All Connected

It's all about connections.  Whether discussing how the Internet could gain consciousness and experience mood states, how to create a film exploring the 21st century, how the modern age has led to the use of units of culture created digitally in everyday language...  It all comes back to human interaction and interdependence.

When Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest and paleontologist, postulated that the universe would continue to grow increasingly complex until a sphere of knowledge covered the entire planet and created a self-conscious human society which would spread across planets and eventually create a conscious universe, computers were far from imagination, much less was the Internet able to be predicted.  Yet, his theories seem to have their beginning in the interconnection created between human culture on the Internet.  As we, the human race, continue to stew in our juices in a giant neural network connecting different elements of society, granting us both a cognitive surplus and an unfortunate adaptation of the brain to view material quickly and return to a state of distractedness away from mental discipline.

What we must not forget is that the internet is an extremely recent human invention.  We began developing microbiology centuries ago, and are only beginning to understand that field of science.  While philosophers will spend countless hours attempting to reconcile the internet with the nature of human consciousness and social interaction that we knew before, chances are that the majority of them will be perceived as wrong in a matter of years when a new breakthrough occurs in science.  But then, some years after that, that breakthrough itself will likely be undermined and changed, as the existence of anti-matter has the potential to undermine most of the laws of physics that we understand.

Perhaps one day, far in the future, humanity will look back at this period of history and deem us the pioneers who brought forth an age of prosperity with the use of digital connection across the globe to unite humanity.  Or perhaps we will be the harbingers of destruction who eroded human consciousness with a reliance on digital interconnection as the internet itself gained consciousness.  Every action that we take in the present will shape which course we follow, but who is to say what the results will be of any action in the long course of history?

All these principles and theories are what we are attempting to explore in this process of creating a crowd-sourced film.  It delves into the very nature of crowd-sourcing in its connections.