Our ability to organize beyond our tribal biology will determine our collective fate. We have evolved to thrive in small groups that develop deep trust and rally around protection from “the other,” but we no longer live in such a world.

Our technology and population demographics have eclipsed such an operating system, even making it detrimental to our collective success. We must now look beyond the horizon that defines our physical boundaries, for there no longer is an edge; we inhabit a floating sphere.

How we balance an embrace of all our diverse subcultures while still evoking a global identity across our species—that’s our most important task moving forward. It will either hinder, or enable, us to solve the many problems we face.