Charles Mackay mentioned in his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, that “Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
I think he's right. I also think Dunbar's Number sometimes called the MonkeySphere has something to do with it. It'll be interesting to see ow it all shakes out with the development of neural interfacing
These are definitely times of change and of open possibilities. I just hope we make the best of all this knowledge and resources we currently have.