To gain a deeper understanding of the World Wide Web, one has to reflect upon its development within the larger context of evolutionary process, of which it is just a part.

As we journey into the next stage of evolutionary development, love and global electronic interconnections are transforming humanity into a higher species.

It's still too early to tell what will happen when enough of us are connected to fulfill that ancient dream, but you'll see as you continue reading, that there are lots of promising signs, and no shortage of thought-provoking ideas on the subject. (David Jay Brown)

• Love's Tool
• Becoming More Human
• When Enough of Us Are Connected

Amplifying our Abilities, Extending our Freedom	(More)
Becoming More Human	(Kelly)
Coalescing into a Greater Self	(Barlow)
Cybernetic Immortality	(Heylighen, Joslyn, Turchin)
Fresh Forward Leap	(de Chardin)
The 'Grey Matter' of Mankind	(de Chardin)
Love's Tool	(Carey)
A New Ecology of Intelligence	(Chislenko)
New Evolutionary Stage for the Nervous System of Social Organisms	(Engelbart)
The Passage	(Lipnack; Stamps)
Patterns of Coherence	(Russel)
Re-plotting our Trajectory	(de Chardin)
When Enough of Us Are Connected	Dilbert