We all know the feeling when something is working well. You can feel the potential. You can sense the excitement. The idea is brilliant and everyone is excited. Usually there is some reward for all stakeholders and a positive attitude is contagious. We all know the feeling we get when we realise something doesn’t work the way it worked before. It could be a job, a business, a relationship. All...
It always feels good to place my Tesla glasses on my head. It’s hard to remember what life was like without them. To say my life is augmented is a bit of a understatement. The glasses see what I see and hear what I hear. They make me a better person. I am not sure anymore whether they anticipate my response to the world or they control it. The artificial intelligence that enhances the glasses has...
Our economy is unsustainable in a world where pandemics are common place and business disruption is business as usual. Our workforce culture is so highly financially leveraged, most families have no choice but to work five days a week and squeeze life into the free moments. This population control is managed by two debt levers, property and tax. The masses cannot sustain surplus saving and...
If you are in marketing you have probably stopped to look at your son or daughter and thought…this is just me with upgrades. It’s hard not to notice the iterative improvements. They are smarter, probably taller, learn faster, physically more capable and not to mention tech savvy. You have selected a mate whose genetic code compliments your own. This union of merged code results in a...
We humans long to automate the physical, to remove the limitations of the body. Many of us now find our natural state is augmented by a computational device. For those whose wellbeing and/or livelihood depend on our brainpower instead of our mustle, our bodies simply hold our head up. The physical human time is coming to an end. Our cars will drive themselves, our factories produce with robotic...
Have you ever wondered why your sense of self feels ageless? That present self, the one that writes, that looks, that hears. That relfective self, the one that remembers and relfects. The future self, the one that thinks of the future and all that will come… You feel ageless but your body does not. It ages noticably along a predictable path. Your face changes to relect your age. You...
Imagine for a moment that science had proven that each of us upon our death are re-incarnated, literally born again to start from scratch as a baby human. Would this knowledge of continued conscious existence change how people perceive the threat of climate change? There would be no deinal then that they themselves will experience the real life perspective of climate neglect outcomes. We soon...
Real, what is real? Real is no more real than the idea of touch or the idea of sight and sound. Simulation, what is simulation? A simulation is the imagining of the real in so much that is seems real. Yet we are faced with the next logical question? How real is real? Real is as absolute it can be because there is nothing more “real” to compare too. But what does it all mean? It means...
What if the ownership of key earth sustainability assets were released from individual country control? The skys, oceans, forests etc were given basic human rights to sustain themselves…to feed and grow, shelter from destruction, and freedom from exploitation. An Earth council. We are failing to represent the long term interest of key assets, which are in our own interest longer term to...
Universal basic income has been proposed as a way of responding to job disruption due to advancements in AI and robotics. How will people live and exchange value in a future dominated by automation? Welfare already exists to adjust income to a living wage standard or to provide basic utility. Income is already taxed to adjust disposable income so that the majority remain in a work/consume cycle...