I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.

我不会把蚂蚁和人类做比较，但是蚂蚁为我们提供了一个有用的模型，说明一个社区的单个成员是如何变得如此有组织性的，以至于他们最终变得像一个巨大的集体大脑。我们的人口爆炸和通讯技术正引领我们走向这条道路。