The human mind is a biological conceptual storage dimension that creates its construct of reality over time. As the mind builds this construct and rewrites repeating structures, reality becomes more about what we already know. Just as the mouse navigates a maze to find cheese, many of us have long built our mazes and comfortably walk the halls, knowing where each passage leads. When faced with...
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...
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...
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...
Looking beyond the future of jobs, we find a place where little jobs exist. The thought of a life without employment scares many of us today because that it is all we have known. Life has been gamified by the creation of tokens in the form of money. This game has been fun and not so fun to play. Yet it has given us all something to do. It has given us status and meaning. You can say when asked...
We live in a world of relative perception. We experience an objective world in as much as we can agree on what we perceive through our senses. To date we have confined digital information to devices and screens, seperate from the real world around us. This seperation has kept a clear division between the made up and the real. This seperation is closing and will soon dissapear, as screens are...