I think we arn't ready for alot of the technology were developing. There are too many greedy, violent people who want to use it to gain power/money. What we need is a global govrenment that is a cross of socalism and democracy (the greek democracy) in order for our species to survive. This will always be difficult, becuase there has never been (atleast that I know of) a system that has resisted corruption. Unless one is set up with a high involvement of the people with a mind set that their survival depends on the survival of the system. Too bad this only happens after major events, (earthquakes, tidal waves, war, global warming?) and it only lasts for a limited time. 1984 shows a good example of this with the govrenments controll over the people using perpetual war with an "enemy" in order to control the people. Were an extreamly flawed species in this respect. Self-consousness only helps us to survive to a certain point, too bad were not consous about the physical world around us. This is where I have a problem with "God." I've met people who don't care about the enviorment because they assume that God has put controls on the Earth so that no matter what they do they think it will correct itself. Unless we accept the idea that we must fight for our existance and start taking measures to reverse the damage we cause to our planet, we're all going to be fucked. In order to do this we must set population limits, pollution limits, use only renewable energy sources, global health care, dismantling of all nuclear weapons, and I can't think of anything else right now.

I'm too stoned and I've ramble on for too long, I'm done.