Many great civilisations have fallen, leaving nothing but cracked ruins and scattered genetics. Usually this results from: natural disasters, resource depletion, economic meltdown, disease, poor information flow and corruption. But we’re luckier than our predecessors because we command a technology that no one else possessed: a rapid communication network that finds its highest expression in the internet. I propose that there are six ways in which the net has vastly reduced the threat of societal collapse. Six ways the internet will save civilisation: Epidemics can be deflected by telepresence The internet will predict natural disasters Discoveries are retained and shared Tyranny is mitigated Human capital is vastly increased Energy expenditure … Continue reading David Eagleman