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 That's what this is. 😂 

I'm saying that we don't actually have to scale up much, we just have to navigate and discover more efficiently.

If you think of a relay as a person or group of persons, that each has thoughts or pet topics, do they need everyone else on the planet to share those thoughts or topics? No, of course, not.  Each thought stands alone, at the same time that lots of people could have the same thought in their head.

If you want to find out more about a thought, you don't need to know every other thought that person has, you only need to know that one thought. So, you ask them and they tell you, and now you both have that thought. And, now, there are two people holding that thought in their head, who could be asked, and they might be in different geographical regions. That thought has now been copied and transported.

The focus, therefore, should be on finding the person who has the thought I am looking for, not on creating a superperson that has all of the thoughts on the planet in their head and figuring out how to get them to share thoughts faster.