Earth eyes

Today's muse, there is something odd about taking our biological eyes, removing them from the planet from which they are sustained, and then looking back.  July 20, 1969: I had turned 15 that spring, having moved across the country three times in the preceding four years, I was in the midst of a pretty serious adolescent depression, but even from that place of pain, the events of this day, and the months leading up to it, were riveting for me, and for billions of others on the planet.  It is this image, actually taken from Apollo 8 on December 24, 1968, seven month's before the first moon landing, that remains for me the defining image of this time.

I am sure technology historians have plenty of practical explanations for why computing and the network of the Internet exploded into being shortly thereafter, perhaps even helped by this massive technological objective; but I can't help but think that we are in the midst of the earth waking up, some massive psychic (?) eruption that is currently underway, of which humans at present, seem to be the primary tool of implementation.  Perhaps it will quiet down into millions of years of more "normal" evolutionary change, however the big gigantic changes in direction are almost always accompanied by massive heat, destruction and then creation, how hot will it get, how much will be destroyed, and what will be created in its place?  Are we the destroyer of worlds, the creator, or all or none of the above?