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The study of how physically assembled groups will behave in a future of augmented reality, brain-computer interfaces, and perhaps telepathic connection. Crowds of the third millennium may not need to speak—they might share thoughts directly, experience collective emotions instantaneously, coordinate without visible signals. The sociology of these crowds examines how they'll form (through thought alone), how they'll decide (through collective consciousness), and how they'll be controlled (if at all). It also examines the dangers: crowds that can't hide dissent, that can be manipulated at neurological levels, that lose individuality entirely. The crowd of the future may be the ultimate expression of human sociality—or the end of the individual as we know it.
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