Informational Singularity

All of humanity's knowledge exists upon the head of a needle.

It wasn't always this way. Before the invention of electricity, often attributed to the birth of artificial light, but more importantly to a new landscape of instantatious information dispersal, information had a dimension.

Informational transmission was done manually, over many miles via carriers of whatever sort was available. Unless they were in the room, sending your friend some juicy gossip took time, because it had to traverse space. Information today still traverses space, of course, but it does so so quickly that it happens outside the human scale of events. .05 seconds is a mostly irrelevant time interval; if you get the message in .27 second as opposed to .73 seconds, your decisions and reactions will be virtually unaffected. The point here is that, because the point between information release and capture is so short, it becomes a singularity. A dimension is lost. Your friend used to live across the state, now they live in the same room with a thin wall. All information exists on the same spot, just waiting to be sorted through (which is why google and others are so important, they hone the sorting process of all the information already on your lap, but that's another thing entirely, if not an interesting analog)

I think music today reflects this singularity, literally and in spirit. Literally, in that the fast flying interaction of different cultures makes their cross polination inevitable in the culture's most prolific and creative minds. In spirit, because lots of different information exists in the same piece, despite it's manefestly distant origin. If a dimension is cut out, all of a sudden everything is right on top of everything else. A new design landscape is opened up every time a dimension is removed.

I'm just curious to see what happens to the culture when teleportion ramps up.