We dominate the earth because we can create and deploy Myths (religions, governments, money, etc.). These Myths help us achieve exceptional level of cooperation.

"Sapiens can cooperate in extremely flexible ways with countless numbers of strangers. That’s why Sapiens rule the world, whereas ants eat our leftovers and chimps are locked up in zoos and research laboratories." - Yuval Noah Harari

Myth-making depends upon communication technology between human minds. Technology provides mechanisms for trust, knowledge storage and transfer of information, which are fundamental to these Myths.

Spoken language gave us the way to effectively communicate one-to-one in a synchronous manner resulting in myths of tribes and prehistoric religions.

Writing gave us the way to store and retrieve knowledge asynchronously. Not just that, marked/signed documents provided trust, it's what civilizations, laws and countries are built on.

The printing press gave the means of mass communication from N-to-many, giving rise to large-scale democracies and companies.

Until this time, transmission of information was dependent upon encoding it on matter (books, using pens, etc.) and physically moving that matter. Now, the information age completely changes that by just moving electrons. The Internet and mobile phones for the first time have given us cheap means to communicate many-to-many.

We are just getting started

Connecting everyone doesn't create the next level of cooperation. More than 90% of people online are lurkers, so we clearly haven't figured out the true many-to-many medium yet. Imagine going to a party and 90% of people don't participate.

What will be the technology for many-to-many communication that comes as easily as spoken language or reading? Something that inherently feels human.

What does trust look like in this medium?

What kinds of new Myths will this technology enable?