Mckenna Question About Singularity

From The Psychedelic Salon, Episode #221: Evolving Times.

Audience question begins at 1:42:26

Q: "What if.... Dr. Buckminster Fuller often spoke of the ephemeraliztion of technology. Do you think there will come a time when we are indistinguishable from our technology and would that the be the sort of apotheosis that you speak about?"

Terence: "No, I think that it would go the other way. That We're moving toward a time when our technology is indistinguishable from us. In other words I don't want us to all turn into 7100 ADAV. That doesn't seem like a good idea. But on the other hand I could imagine as a hopeful scenario, a future world of let's say 500 or a billion healthy, happy, well-fed people of all races, political affiliations, gender persuasions and so forth and so on, And those people would live essentially as our archaic ancestors did. Very little material culture, very nomadic. But if you could transport yourself into the body of one of these people you would discover that when they closed their eyes, there are menus hanging in space. In other words, the computer that was on the back of the thumbnail... five years later, that computer moves into being a kind of an implant, a black contact-lense that is sown into your eyelids at age 6. So that when you close your eyes, you're actually looking at an interface, and the entire database of the culture could be placed there. You see really what computers are doing is they're making what we call the collective-unconscious, conscious. All data, all images are potentially accessible through the network.

And, you know, I'm still getting used to the idea of the network myself. Like I keep thinking, 'oh, I have this timeline. I could get somebody's chronology and put it at my website.' And then I remember, 'no, no' all I have to do is point to their website. I don't have to copy or move anything. If there is one list, that's all the world needs. Anybody else who needs that list can point to it from their website. The speed at which new structures can be created is astonishing. I mean almost literally overnight you can build a website and begin to point at other websites and bring resources into yours.

This is a technology which is gonna turn out to be not what people think it is. Its gonna be a technology for showing each other the inside of our heads For showing each other our dreams.