“Almost everything interesting in the human experience is the result of an individual experiencing, experimenting, explaining, and sharing,” said my young friend. “A hive mind would be the ancient television broadcasts, or life at the height of the datasphere…consensual idiocy.”

— Dan Simmons , book The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 21 (p. 464)

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