in an article on his famous blog waitbutwhy he wrote:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/09/marriage-decision.html

the better we could communicate on a mass scale, the more our species began to function like a single organism, with humanity’s collective knowledge tower as its brain and each individual human brain like a nerve or a muscle fiber in its body. With the era of mass communication upon us, the collective human organism—the Human Colossus—rose into existence.