in future we will have 4th or 5th waves when Terabytes give way to Exabyte to Yottabyte

Ever since natural selection released homo sapiens wild in the nature with formidable brain size & hitherto unsurpassed cognitive skills, HS has widely altered the environment around her. Though it is fashionable to recognize technology as a game changer only in the 20th century & later, it has always been so. The hunter gatherer natural state was slowly but surely left behind through anthropo-selection of desirable traits in wild animals to domesticate them and through animal-husbandry to nurture livestock for food, clothing, protection, locomotion etc. Similarly wild varieties of plants were cultivated into stable agriculture. 

This earliest technological leap allowed permanent settlements & growth of civilization as we term it. This was one giant transformation as perforce small communities of hunter gatherers could grow into city states and empires, colonize lands, alter landscapes, develop astronomy, medicine, literature and so on. 


This enabled creation of surplus, and thereby notion of private property. Second great transformation took place when essentially artisanal production system of great esthetics & individuality that was supplementary to primacy of agriculture gave way to industrialized production based on new energy sources & machinery designed to take advantage of them. Today we talk of 3rd wave of change when smoke stack factories are relegated into background and knowledge farms have taken their place. I have no doubts in future we will have 4th or 5th waves when Terabytes give way to Exabyte to Yottabyte.

Point of this brief sketch was to show that while awesome change is wrought outside, the evolutionary processes still act at biological clock speeds. HS’s innate nature hasn’t changed much through all of this. If an infant from ‘primitive’ tribe is transplanted into ‘post modern’ society, it would have no difficulty in adjusting and excelling in outward appurtenances. That’s why Madonna’s adoptions in Malawi don’t run into any existentialist issues of this nature in USA. While Nature has remained same, the process of centralization and control have continued unabated through all this. 

How progressively fewer and fewer corporations and individuals are controlling more and more resources on earth has raised concerns in many quarters, and great many counter movements are arising to resist this. Centralized data bases on every HS who roams the earth is the dream every ruler, marketer, advertiser, etc. lovingly dreams of. Every person, group, community, who value their independence have to be conscious of this sequestering movement and devise strategies to defeat them.