Love the direction in which you’re headed! I’ve actually seen the spontaneous ant bridge response happen in human beings, we’re definitely capable of it. My sense is that it requires a culture with network effects that go beyond digital media, a culture that is connected more intimately to one another. Kevin Kelly puts it beautifully, he says that we’ll likely be spending the next decades asking ourselves what it really means to be human.
Have you guys read Geoffrey West’s _Scale_ yet? Highly recommended.