Every now and then some idiotic nincompoop comes up with the wonderful idea of a group mind evolving from all human beings. Until I came here, I thought of only two outcomes of this. Either the world would be run by a gigantic committee with all that implies for inertia and running round in circles, or it would be run by one preson with a compelling personality. Since then I have found three more models. One is the group run by another group who isn't really part of it, for some purpose which it is keeping to itself. One is a group mind dominated by the lowest common multiple of human interests - see the dark side of the net/web. And one is here. Which is even capable of coping well with the nasties. It's a good model, the only good model.... but I still want out of the evolving group mind. There are people out there who aren't part of this one.

Penny