The world is a big place. As we get more advanced communications technology, we realize how much there is going on in the world. There are more wars, sports events, riots, fashion shows, and religious movements than any one person can keep track of. Yet every day, all this information is available. We have to be introduced to many of the problems around the world, but we are also forced to ignore many of them, as there are simply too many to keep track of.
Human society is coming together globally due to the internet, and we are finding out that it's simply too big to be able to process all the details using conventional methods. The question central to this topic is: what is a new way to process details and interact with a large global society?