Abstract
In order to steer the future, humanity must overcome the Babel problem, that is, the failure of communication and the scattering and divisions of community. I discuss why I believe this is the most fundamental problem of humanity, and possibly the only real one, others being challenges which we could meet easily enough if we could unite the human community and integrate human knowledge. Finally, I ask whether information technology and artificial intelligence offer us hope of a way to move beyond Babel.
Mark Avrum Gubrud