It's a constant theme these days, where is technology taking us?

Are we heading towards greatness or just hyper-connected collapse?

This challenge, our challenge, was foreseen a century ago by Teyardishardin.

A world-renowned paleontologist helped verify fossil evidence of human evolution.

A Jesuit priest and philosopher penned forbidden ideas that seemed mystical at the time, but

are now coming true, that humanity would develop capacities for collective global intelligence.

That a meaningful vision of the earth and the universe would have to include, as he

put it, the interior as well as the exterior of things, mind as well as matter.

The coming stage of evolution, he said, won't be driven by physical adaptation, but by human

consciousness, creativity, and spirit.

It's up to us.

We visit Teyardishardin's biographer, and we experience his ideas energizing New York

Times dot earth blogger Andrew Revkin and evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson.

The main thing he said, which is only now becoming back into vogue, is that, in one sense,

the origin of man was just another species.

But in another sense, we were an entirely new evolutionary process, and that made us,

in some ways, as significant as the evolution of the life.

The whole region of cyberspace, you see, there are some people who say Teyard is the patron

saint of the worldwide weapon, somehow, you know, had this idea that we will intensify

our communication, but what are we doing?

What do we do with it?

There are the Kurzweils of the world who talked about singularity when they kind of see the

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