All quotes from James Burke’s

Telecommunications can pinpoint somebody—like that did—all because he picked up a telephone, or because he’s on a computer databank. We organize ourselves better because of that. The question is: how well organized will we become? Too well? To a certain extent, the modern world would fall apart without that organizational ability. The new community of nations that has grown up from the bits and pieces of the old European empires—the French, the English, the Dutch, the Spanish, the Portuguese—is held together because we can organize. But what will that organizational network, that communications network, do to us next?