Human endeavor seems to gain momentum every day. Projects take on a life of their own. As people's focus on a specific area of activity sharpens, they spend more time and effort researching and delving into that topic, and their knowledge and insight increases. And then the effort taken seems to create an even bigger result. Human effort goes through the gears of the engine to reach a higher speed….

And yet there is a universal balance that continues to exist. An interdependence among all things.

And a lot of people have already thought of this exact thing. Declarations of Interdependence abound. Look at this one and this one and this one. That's for starters. There are a lot.

Financial markets are one area where there is a tremendous amount of work done in trying to predict the impacts of interdependence, particularly in a flattened world. Here is one take on the practical impact of what appears to be a growing bubble.

The article below that Chris Broad wrote about China and brands is another take on it.

Macroeconomists address this too in their models. Look at this article. 

It really does appear that we are accelerating toward a singularity.

Will that mean a total melding of man and machine, where we move from being a carbon based life form to becoming at one with the silicon that we appear to have mastered?

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