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Archetypes of the Cloud: Adventures in Cyberspace
noetic.org
by Steven Vedro
June 2012
The coupling of electricity with our nervous system over a century and a half ago started the process of what the prescient media sage Marshal McLuhan called “the outering of our nervous system.” From the one-to-one communications technologies of the telegraph and telephone, to the interpersonal one-to-many forms of broadcast radio and television, to today’s all-to-all global grids of the Internet and the emerging distributed intelligence of peer-to-peer and social networks, we continue to grow more connected, more accessible, more stimulated. Each technological stretching of our communications matrix also has an impact on our emotional and spiritual life, our language, and the myths we live by.
Our technologies are the products of our evolving consciousness, and they also change our consciousness. Yet it is from the deeper well of consciousness—from myth and metaphor—that we will draw the wisdom to guide us through this transformative shift. As our communications structures move from interconnected networks to entire environments of distributed (cloud) intelligence, the challenge is no longer “How do I relate to the other beings in this world?” but the transpersonal question of “What are we cocreating in every moment of that connection?”……
There’s a lot more to this essay. To read the rest –
http://noetic.org/noetic/issue-twent...-of-the-cloud/
