It's true that our brains hold a gazillion bits of information (and even more of the useless variety). It's true that every part of our anatomy sends information back and forth to the brain, telling us things like "that's too hot" or "that's broken" or "time to reproduce more cells".
That's not what I'm talking about.
There is a fair amount of talk about the effects our cell phone signals have on us. It may cause cancer. It may not. That has yet to be proven.
The point is, think about how much information is passing through you. WiFi signals, cell phone signals, even the remote control to your television send out invisible beams of data.
There is someone's banking information being passed through your kidney as we speak. Two long lost friends are connecting again via Facebook through your gall bladder. Someone is downloading Lady GaGa mp3s to their iPod via your appendix. Someone is calling a cab through your liver. Someone is playing Halo 3 with a guy in Japan through your intestines. Someone is "sexting" through your spleen.
Peoples lives are being lived through you, and you've never even met them.
We talk about the global village and how the world is more connected than ever, but it goes further than that. We are connected via the hundreds and thousands of people that our information passes through to get to someone else.
It's a wondrous thing, in a sense, because it is yet another thing that connects us to other people. Their information is inside of you, and your information is inside of them. It's also a dangerous thing, as it could very well be killing us. It could cause cancer, or another ill-effect we won't become aware of until twenty or thirty years from now.
It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel. We are all connected. What you put out into the world passes through so many different people to get to someone else. The air you breathe in is full of data.
Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out.
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