Future of humanity.

If a piece of paper is 0.1 mm thick, folding it 42 times makes it 2^42 times thicker which equals the distance from the Earth to the Moon. Folding it 8 times more (so 50 times total) gets you the distance from the earth to the sun… almost.

Hi-tech advances in the same exponential way every 18 months. So far it has 'folded' 32 times. Until not that long-ago technology improvements were extremely focused on helping people do a better more efficient job. 32 folds got us to a place where people-dependent systems are becoming the bottleneck. What is coming our way next is highly automated business operations/fulfillment platforms that remove these bottlenecks (i.e. systems dependent on people). We are closer than most think we are.

Automotive, warehouse, supply chain, banking and corporate finance, insurance, law, audit services, ... basically any process/function/job of a repetitive nature, is predictable or can be measured/guided by sensors will be replaced by a new wave of automation. If you keep up to date with what is happening with AI and DLT (Blockchain) it is not hard to see that this wave will hit us soon.

Businesses, marketplaces, economies and hopefully maybe even governments (one can dream) will become exponentially more efficient. So, if that is already happening anyways then what do we need to focus on? What is the most important thing? Whenever a big change occurs society as a whole needs to rebalance. In this case that means the rebalancing of the displacement of people and it needs to be addressed now.

For most people, the system they are plugged into dictates how they live their lives and the role they play within it has by default become their purpose. Most people have not created a mindset for themselves that operates in the new reality. This reality will show itself more and more over the next few years and decades. It will become painfully obvious that change is the only constant. Unfortunately, right now, most people are still looking for and expecting comfort. Comfort provided by their employer, government, and peers.   

How do you embrace an AI and DLT based future build for (and by) robots and increase quality of life for all? How do we guide the minds of people that operate on what they learned 10, 20, 30, … years ago? How do we guide minds that are largely focused on being/staying comfortable (i.e. have a job I may or may not like so I can pay my bills and maybe do something fun on the side)? 

There is no simple or easy answer, but I know this… People are happy when they live empowered lives. I do know that discovering purpose, acting with compassion, and re-evaluating what it means to be human are some of the key elements necessary to bring a healthy balance to all of humanity. If we fail to bring these into our lives in a deep and meaningful way depression will rise to unimaginable levels and depression is the cancer of the mind.

How many more folds before AI/DLT reaches your desk? tick tock tick tock... are you ready?