Worldwide Immune System for Humanity

“Science has not yet found its true purpose.  … Science will not discover its true purpose until it is guided and controlled by an image of Humanity huge enough in its conception, simple enough in its message and sense of unity to satisfy the aspirations and needs of Humanity as a whole.”—The Noetic Sciences Review, Spring 1992

In 1965 I was working at UCLA as the Technical Director of the Western Data Processing Center. I wrote, we submitted and ARPA (the Advanced Research Projects Agency) accepted our proposal to carry out the first substantial research in the development of computer networking. In that proposal, I described the first Area of Investigation, "On-Line Users of the Network", as follows:

"The existence of a computer network … has important implications…. It provides a means of person-to-person communication via computer. What are the benefits and possible disadvantages of this use of a computer network?"