Who are we, and how will we be remembered? Where are we headed? Is this now the digital age, or the information age? And is that an oxymoron given the medium? Have we converged on the time where information and the means by which we deliver it, define us?

Text, bulletin boards, chat messengers, social networking sites, email, SMS, pictures, digital video – you can hardly say we’re a universal society that’s recoiled from interaction with others. If anything, it assaults us at every turn. It’s inescapable.

Have we then, assumed the mantle of information couriers? And hidden beneath the writhing surface of those methods, have we unknowingly embraced a lock-step culture of enforcing that mantle on others?

And is the design of this mesh merely a vehicle to convalesce ideas? Or is it more? Is it our entertainment, our news and a part of our daily planning? Do we share that wealth of knowledge with others? Does the medium encourage us to do so knowingly and instinctively?

And yet, what is it?

It’s a system of signals and waves that delivers the thoughts and ideas of many; so that many might discuss matters in unison – breaching geographical restrictions.

Is that not a hive mind in its infancy? And at what point do you draw the distinction? Is this the cusp of technological revolution that we’d otherwise call fiction?

Discuss.