When you look at the great scientific and technological achievements over the years, its quite amazing that most of the major discoveries and advancements have happened in the last 300-400 years, basically since the Renaissance. The last fundamentally major achievement was invariably the Internet and the coming of the Information Age. So what's next? Have we plateaued? Well everyone keeps talking about String Theory, Quantum Mechanics and a GUT (Grand Unified Theory) or TOE (Theory of Everything) and others have talked about communicating with alien species. I even read today that we've finally created a biological transistor so we can create biological computers (that one kind of freaks me out). Well here is one interesting thought and the same people that put together ARPAnet (i.e. The Internet) is now going to fund this initiative. Check it out.
http://www.ted.com/talks/the_interspecies_internet_an_idea_in_progress.html
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