I can has a rationalistic view of the Universe?

“And with this *holds up microchip* capable of keeping a tally on those millions of opinions voiced electronically we might be able to lift the limitations of conforming to any centralised representational form of government, originally invented because there was no way for everybody’s voice to be heard. Your might be able to give everybody unhindered, untested access to knowledge, because a computer would do the day-to-day work for which we once qualified the select few, in an educational system originally designed for a world where only a few could be taught. You might end the regimentation of people living and working in vast, unmanageable cities, uniting them instead in an electronic community where the Himalayas and Manhattan were only a split second apart. You might, with that and much more, break the mold that has held us back since theĀ  beginning, in a future world that we would describe as balanced anarchy, and they would describe as an open society, tolerant of every view and where there is no single privileged way of doing things.” James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed, 1985

In part of the soliloquy delivered at the end of a program on how science and also religion have changed and continue to bias our view of the universe, James Burke predicted a future where computers allowed us to establish a vast electronic community, where everyone can air their views. I expect he envisioned fewer cats.

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