You are speaking about evolution like it is some entity with purpose. It's the same old argument about no-designer design.
What is getting scary, and what should be scary for you is information getting the same pattern of evolution. Right now you think of it as a pile of stuff without purpose, which gets copied and selected by some primitive human minds, wrapping whole Earth over Internet, sharing concepts and discussing themes on various forums. It won't take long until humans learn to extend their bodies with technology, to have them equipped with communication at all times. As the understanding of biology and technology increases, we will gradually give information the access to the mind of the masses, and providing ability for masses to influence itself by exploiting flaws in human brain. Right now people bow to information, and there will be a point reached when single person will be nothing without a "connection", like without a bloodline or nervous system. There will be a point reached at which "information" over symbiotic relationship with humans will get physical quality with a sum of whole human knowledge, with the mind of the masses. Such collective mind would not favor single individual thinking independently and spreading ideas, it would be seen just like cancer as a top priority domestic threat. Now I am not arguing if it is good or bad: we are moving into that direction at the rate your Internet connection speed is increasing and at the rate new communication ways are forming, letting you to inform anyone in the world what you are doing, forming various connections over great distances. I think it is going to happen, but what worries me is the kind of ideas this information will inherit: will it be world based on reason, logic, science, or would be a world of mandatory fairy tale.
What I talked about was about future, it it looks very much like present to me, right now it is simply on lower scale.
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