inderSTADTBala Gopalan's noWHere in the *CITY

Makes me wonder if this video is an early documentary for the technology-enabled journey of humans to look inward, deeper and deeper, and realize that all ephemeral, identity-based expressions (atman) will eventually mature and converge into the realization – aham brahmAsmi – of a single, universal conscience (brahman) that is as within each one of us, as much as it is everywhere outside.

Watch the “Did you know?” video (v4.0, 2009) from XPLANE and The Economist:

There is a reference in this video to a quote by futurist, Raymond Kurzweil:

What used to fit in a building now fits in your pocket,
What fits in your pocket now will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years

What then can fit within a blood cell can in turn be hardcoded into your DNA, only to be later worked in to the sub-atomic void at which point there is no differentiator in identity.  There might be spiritual paths to explore into these depths and realize the connected oneness.  Many such journeys of self-realization and enlightenment documented in mythology, religious scriptures, and by new age gurus.  Such divining is however not for everyone, at least not in a single life time, as sincere as the endeavor might be.

Perhaps, it is for this everyone the long winded path through technology (here, media convergence) where we eventually realize this connected oneness.  When that happens we won’t need transportation vehicles and communication tools to connect.  Pursuit of material objects will be irrelevant.  For what we sought, wanted to be, and where we wanted to go we would have found them all within. The big nothing!

Everything else is pure illusion, sarvam mAyam.

Image source: aejmc.org