Think this:
IBM's Watson Supercomputer Destroys Humans in Jeopardy
Think of all the wars and why people went to war, of all the civilizations that have vanished, for all the same reasons. Could we in fact not repeat the mistakes over and over. Of the lessons that have to be learned for each generation over and over again. Each lesson would be a new lesson in this world, one never taught to any previous human. And that lesson would be instantly available to all humans everywhere and there would be no disagreement or argument on what was learned. The sharing you mention would be shared among all. Continuous improvement. Relentless pursuit of perfection a la The Borg.
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It's a very comforting thought and i would love to think that it's possible but look at how humanity treats the earth. We have the ability to stop continuously fucking it over yet humanity still pollutes at an alarming rate. The worst part is all of this waste and excess is inherently unnecessary. We've had the knowledge. We could repair it. Yet most of us would rather deny, ignore or use it to our own small petty advantages. And that hasn't come anywhere near talking about greed and financial fuckery. Which has the effect of turning other human beings into constant waste makers not only by default but by necessity. Sure, poor people can afford to recycle but what about transportation of that recycled material? Who would pay for that? It's a hard enough time to get people to pay for the things surrounding them now let alone adding another cost that has already been deemed by some as bullshit science.
Humanity is intrinsically flawed. Meaning we will take those flaws into any other form of being. Including shared thought and technology. Take microsoft's chatbot for instance, it became an insane almost instantaneous racist not because of technology but because of human beings. No matter which way you call you the fault there still lands on humanity's shoulders. By way of flawed programing or it learning from flawed human beings on twitter. Both of those groups of human beings were exposed countless times to information/knowledge of not only history but the laws of our time and the bot still ended up "we're going to build a wall and mexico is going to pay for it" on everybody.
I don't know. To me war and peace are two sides of the same coin that is humanity. Every last thing you humanity creates is very quickly used for both war and peace respectfully. The study of the mind, technology, emotions, medicine you name it and humanity has used it as a weapon. Which leads me to believe that the same would happen with shared thoughts and information. The debate for/against individuality aside i'm pretty sure that someone would be able to influence universally share information in the way you expressed just like people are able to influence the internet, media outlets and social groups.
So err yeah i highly doubt humanity even could fully learn from or stop having to learn from it's continuous mistakes. I mean, have you ever told anyone a story and told them to tell others? How long would it take before that story became unrecognizable from it's earlier state? Imagine chaos theory with a human direction filtered through a system of social interactions. Even if by some stretch of the imagination it does start out as pure unadulterated information/knowledge it sure as hell wouldn't stay that way. Unless of course there were some sort of regulation in place to keep cow paddies from gumming up the works. And when that happens you no longer have universally shared information/knowledge. At that point you'd have yet another variation on what we currently have. Some human beings would be forced to take the roles of judges. Proceeding over that information/knowledge. And well...power corrupts right. So it would just be a matter of time before humanity had to re-learn the same lessons..again. This time those lessons would be inflicted directly to the brain.
I'm sure i'm typing a lot here but ah well thats what the internet is for right. Anyway, we haven't even really gone into the amount of information/knowledge there would be/is to know or to be shared. My first thought would be that we'd have to modify our brains to even come close to being able to hold that much data. And then theres the problems of understanding, retrieval and expression. Meaning before humanity could even begin to think about sharing information/knowledge in any grand way there would first have to be one hell of a universal and global healthcare plan for all human beings. We would have to "fix" all human beings first. Meaning anyone with memory issues, cognitive issues, mental health issues and etc. Autism, adhd, add and etc. And we already know how difficult that has been (i'm of course looking at america).
Which now that i think about it could be another point. There are people out there arguing against all sorts of things that would help them in both the long and short run. Once again, they have the same ability to gain the same information as everyone else yet they still argue against their own best interests. Some of them aren't up on the lastest whats but some of them are contrarians plan and simple. Which would undoubtly be another factor in the shared information/knowledge age. People would disagree with it and possibly fight against it...just because. Many may get weeded out if the age goes the elysium route but we've seen throughout history that doesn't always salt the earth. Which would mean, to keep the shared system in place genetics would also have to be a large factor.
Hmm so i'm thinking the borg is a good example. Kind of fits. Of course though, even the borg had to go to war. And that was pretty much constantly. To sum up the bible i wrote....
1. The planet is dying so how could/would we be able to allocate resources and brain power to this when we can't/won't fix the very thing we live on. Cause humanity is totally shitting where it eats at.
2. We human beings have such an influence on everything we do that computers are an almost direct mirror to us. Spelling certain chaotic doom for shared anything and artificial intelligence.
3. Everything we make...we break. And everything we break someone revives and calls it retro. Birth. Death. Humanity can't not press the button. And/or not build a new one.
4. Chaos theory turned to 11,000,000,000.00.
5. Humanity is just now thinking about universal/global healthcare. After we've made it to the moon no less. And i forgot my glasses the other day. They were of course on my head.
6. People exist out there who are against not trashing the planet. Can you imagine having to share part of your brain with those kinds of people? *Shivers*
