Some meandering thoughts about nothing special

I have this feeling that an individual now is not smarter than any other individual thousand or may be ten thousand years ago. Capability of individual brain has not increased at all. Only the interconnection made possible by all the communication technologies has enabled us to share experiences and knowledge. Such sharing has created a sense of superiority over human beings of bygone times.



Geographical expanse hindered the communication among people living in different places. Lingual difference accentuated that hindrance. Both of them are caving in front of the technological advances in communication and computational technologies. Emergence of English as a standard language of the world is also reducing the hindrance caused by the difference in languages.



From language to culture, everything has become globalized. There is almost nothing that is local anymore. Even the local problems have global manifestations due pervasive interconnectivity, either via youtube, google, facebook, terrorism, television, internet, email. There are simply too many ways of such manifestations.



There is another explanation to it. In stead of saying globalization, we can say we all have become localized now. There is no 'here' and 'there' anymore. Everything is 'here'. We are simply a part of a bigger whole, the World. The World operates because we as individual parts do our jobs and we interact with other parts using certain rules and share results of our jobs. This way, in stead of saying that 'local problems have global manifestations' we can say 'local problems are no longer local. In stead they can be solved by global participation'.