We live in realities apart from other realities. However, there does exist a place where we can leave our own personal realm in order to enter and view others. The modern digital community resembles “the wood between the worlds”, of C.S. Lewis’ The Magician's Nephew,that allowed the antagonists, Digory and Polly, to enter multiple worlds outside their own.

Illustrating the interconnected network of our technological age would resemble an area where our individual minds are pooled into separate areas that can be entered and exited. In our era, a place that can gather collective information and stories for our diverse group of individuals may positively affect our society.

Information today is facilitated into a universal knowledge, where each one of us can come to freely pluck off what fruits we require for our daily routines. For example, if one wants to find the nearest gas station, they need only to pull out their phone and ask it to find one for them.

They could ask another individual, however, who also has a daily routine that may be interrupted if you were to ask. Our technological age assists us while also preventing us from treading on others.

For example, the digital age can save your life. Back during the search for Malaysian Flight 370, a website known as Tomnod helped bring together the collective effort of the internet to help search for the presumed downed plane. Those who volunteered their services did not have to leave the comfort of their homes. They had power over how they conducted their own search.

What this shows us is that technology can help bring together individuals so that a good outcome can be reached. In this situation, they may not have found the plane, but the method is being adopted for similar situations.

Others fear that technology will drive the decay of our civilization, breaking down the societal and family unit. However, the future does not belong to closely linked collective unity. Posterity will belong to a global network of individuals, each with their own contributions to society. Of course, this will take everyone collectively working together with the same broad goals in mind.

Technology is very much like fire. Technology's advent threw human civilization ahead by centuries in a matter of decades. But these advances can bring problems if used in excess. Preventing technology from taking over humanity ultimately comes down to our choices. It will take a moral and ethical society to make sure that technology progresses in a way that is beneficial to everyone.