Text U.
The global convergence of "You" into "U" has been given an exponential kick in the butt by the cell phone, especially SMS or text messaging, where the quality of brevity is contained in the name of the medium itself – Short Messaging Service (SMS).
Morris code reduced the alphabet to a dot and a dash, a dit and a dah, a digital on and off switch, which was a precursor of teen dexterity tapping out text messages on modern cell phones.
The collapse of the word "You" into the letter "U" began in the message. In a reversal of Marshall McLuhan's "the medium is the message," SMS spawned the dawn of "the message is the medium." The text message is the medium. Where abbreviations were applied to labels in the pre 2000 Old Age, abbreviations become messages in the post 2000 New Age. Entire thoughts are parsed down to first letters.
Through the interplay of the planetary network of cell phones and the human neurons digitally linked through billions of handsets, a quantum leap in man-machine evolution has imploded into a cross cultural communications revolution, unimagined by Morris, unforeseen by Alexander Graham Bell and unaccounted for by McLuhan.
This is not an explosion. This is an implosion. Millions, hundreds of millions, billions of human identities are reduced to U.
This is not anonymity, the absence of identity. This is a redefinition of identity in the letter U. This is U identity, in other words, unonymity. Whereas the anonymous self it lost in the nether world of no identity or nothingness, the unonymous self is found in a bombardment of messages received from cell mates and fellow travelers in mutually accepted social networks.
When it comes to parsing you, the "U's" have it!
Now, let's take a look at unitary consciousness much closer to home.
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