We're already there, google is a good example. These types of questions remind me of the writer Pierre Tielhard Du Chardin. He was a Jesuit priest who was exiled to China by the church for his writings. He's the man who predicted the internet, in some very specific ways, way back in the twenties and thirties. His writing is an interesting amalgam of very spiritual thought and a faith that science would bring mankind together to become something together, something greater than the sum of it's parts. If you end up liking that idea you might like some of his non-anthropological books like "The Future of Man". It's amazing how many of the things he predicted about the future of technology have come true.