Childhoods End
Read it many years ago. I’m not going to spend any time googling it, just shooting fro the hip as I remember it. So the Overlords came to watch over us as we were on the edge of some mass evolution of mankind. At some moment the human population all started working in unison to complete the process and join the Over Mind, which the Overlords did not understand. I was thinking about the current state of humankind which to me seems to be accelerating toward disaster. Maybe we are on the cusp of some great breakthrough. That would be a lot more desirable that what appears to be the case at the moment. Maybe we can learn from our self imposed crises. Sometimes laying in bed late I night I get random thoughts like this.
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Hope humanity can evolve into something more peaceful/purposeful without the ending of that story (which I still don't quite understand). There was a fairly recent video mini series made (maybe in the last five years) which was okay, but as usual a film can't really substitute for the imagination that takes place while reading. Another of my favorite Clarke tales is "The Nine Billion Names of God", with another not so good for mankind ending.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God Great story to look for if you haven't read it....
