The existence of God is imminent.

To put it extremely lightly, the existence of God can divide a room. If I put it any lighter, that statement would float.

The generally accepted school of thought for the believers is that God created stuff, that’s why we’re here today. Cool, fair enough.

Non believers say that God is simply a construct in our minds, created to help us make meaning of our existence.

Thanks to this divisive issue, wars have been fought, blood shed and arguments had. It’s driven families apart and schools into disarray. Makers of holy bread and bullets seem to be the only ones thriving.

But what if both sides are wrong. Or more accurately, both right?

As leading futurists and general talkers of sense suggest, we are moving towards a state known as singularity; where the gap between humans and machines shrinks to nothing and we become one. Instead of having phones in our hands, they’ll be in our head, that kind of thing. A purer example would be uploading our minds and conscious to computers where they can be stored and operated s indefinitely, giving rise to (a version of) immortality. Already, machines have been developed to respond to brain impulses and provide feedback straight to the brain. But as we move towards a state where humans and computers become one, the interconnectedness creates a global state of consciousness. All that has ever been known, we will all know. All that can be seen, will be seen by all.

This is a long way around to explain that I think we’re evolving into exactly what we claim God to be. All knowing. All seeing. All understanding. I don’t think God was the starting point for humanity I think it’s the end point.

What happens after that though, God only knows.

The Internet of Eggs

We’re on the cusp of another pretty incredible tech revolution. If you haven’t heard, it’s called the internet of things; a movement that will see all objects equipped with their own monitors to collect and transmit information to other objects within their network, the companies that made them, and the people who own them. It’s hyper-connectivity, and it’s coming home with you.

It might mean you get a text when you’re running out of milk, or an email when your pot plant need watering. Lights will adjust to the music you play, and art will be projected on your wall according to the weather outside.

On one hand, it’ll be nice to see the internet utilised for things that matter, rather than pornography and cat gifs. However there is a bigger issue at hand.

The way the internet of things is being sold to us is by appealing to our egos. Companies like Cisco tell us that we’ll be the king of the system; gifted ultimate control of everything around us, and the information to do it right.

But the idea that we are masters of it all is bullshit. What a total underutilization of the technology; having us in control of it all, when the algorithms in their technology used far outweighs our ability to make decisions.

It’s nothing more than a sell to get us to buy into the internet of things - to feel like we'll maintain a level of control, still being an integral part of the system. The reality is far different. Why would we automate everything but our role? It makes no sense.

The truth is that pretty soon after the internet of things takes hold, our role will become entirely redundant. In order to operate to its full potential, it needs to cut us out of the deal. The machines will talk to one another, and they’ll be getting shit done way more effectively than we ever could.

Of course, there still needs to be the illusion of control.

It’s like packet mix for cakes. If you’ve ever made one, you’ll know that packet cake mix needs an egg to make it. There has been the technology to include the egg component in the mix since packet mix was first invented. However, by leaving the responsibility of cracking an egg to the “baker”, there is a sense of importance and responsibility derived that wouldn’t exist if we were just to add water.

That’s why the internet of things will resign mankind to a of future ‘packet-mix humanity’. We will fulfill a purely token role, passengers in life, under the illusion we are in control when the reality is the results and outcomes of our existence are largely controlled by everything else around us. And that’s when we shall experience a new revolution, or more accurately, devolution. Seven billion different components all collecting and transmitting information to one another - The internet of eggs