This talk begins by considering where we are in the story of civilization (the “big story”), and charts a possible future in which the technology of memory sharing enables a profusion of collective human intelligences. It uses the Information Economy Metalanguage (IEML) as an example of such an enabling technology. It proposes that a revolutionary aspect of topic maps is that they enable shared intuitions by allowing information emanating from different cultural perspectives to be co-located, even while such co-locations remain addressable in terms of their original cultures.