Chapter 4 : The optic interface has merged the minds of the world. The future of millions of interconnected brains forming one central hive mind. The start of a new world of all minds thinking as one. The story has only begun. - VRIL
Chapter 3 : I searched the world . Just to disappear . It was all a dream . I woke up . Transcended , I became the beast and merged the power , but not with the collective , they would not have me. Unbreakable.
Chapter 2 : After I escaped 3 cults , I never saw the world the same again. People I knew were forgotten as I transcended. The transformation was a journey and that human journey is coming to a close . I will never forget when they told me it was impossible. - VRIL
Seems quite likely that people will speak to each other at 1.5-4X telepathically by going thought -> text -> synthesized speech, avoiding the (slow) meat flapping, and over 1-1 encrypted channels by default instead of space-local broadcasts prone to man-in-the-middle "attacks".