Every leap in intelligence has been a leap in the number of things that could talk to each other — from inside a cell to across a planet.
Molecules learn to coordinate inside a membrane.
Cnidarians use electrical pulses to coordinate cells across a body.
First high-bandwidth sensors emerge — predators and prey coevolve.
Two human brains can now share an internal state.
Memory survives the body that produced it.
Ideas spread faster than the population reproduces.
Signals decouple from couriers. Continents talk in real time.
Packet switching makes the network a substrate, not a wire.
Civilization gets a shared visual interface.
Every human pocket becomes a planetary sensor.
A new architecture learns from the planet's writing.
Cognition can be rented by the second.
Humans, machines, AI, sensors converge on one substrate.