Hi SDAI,
You wrote:
"This world is a 'hell world' - and I mean that in the nicest way ;-)"

Interesting isn't it?
The religious folks think "Hell's down there" and they're going to Heaven (up there) after living a good clean life full of hypocrisy.....
Actually, the higher developed you are, you can get glimpses of this "hell world" we live in.
A favorite saying of mine is "Just Visting.......a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live here....."

You continued:"A world in which there is no absolutes - no good, no evil - only the relative proposition of varying limited intelligences interfacing with each other and their environment."

Oh yes, and as we move towards "globalization" and "free" world trade and the breaking down of borders and cultures, what good will it do US?
Frankly, I don't think this consolidation of power is going to work. Wasn't the Tower of Babel constructed or destroyed to prevent this type of thing from happening in the first place?
I could be wrong...I am no Bible scholar.....no...

"Technology will probe, monitor, replicate, transmit, integrate and transfer - but it can't compare to consciousness and its quantized link to higher and higher spectra."

That's a comforting statement and one to ponder; however.....if directed beams of energy are directed at a brain that is receiving signals OUTSIDE of "quantized consciousnesss", then what would be the effect upon the other spectra?
Would that energy.......say, as a group mind, rebel?
What effects would it have?
(Oops.....what board are we on?....hope it's the "off-topic" one....)

"As humanity gets inherently lazier and technology must perform the spying ......these things slowly cripple the folks who use them.
So perhaps privacy will bounce back - as society becomes more inert and numbed to the whole thing."

I understand (after talking to a couple of gentlemen who worked on the ECHELON project for many years), that the project is over-run with codes and sections and that making any great sense of it becomes harder as the technology gets more integrated.

These men got tired of wearing suits to work everyday only to find they were spying on their neighbours (or that the program was capable of it). A few of them opted out for the Silicon Valley/Microsoft crowd and now spend their weekends racing cars or skydiving.