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yo, I may sound like a broken disk, but this is my exact feeling when I work with arduino, IOTs or other less known device like brainwave readers..
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THESIS
Basically all of the tools, technology and non centralized concepts born in and popularized by the information explosion are starting to change things beyond information. Thus we're bordering on a new age in the same way the industrial revolution gave us the means to create the information age. IE: One era always bleeds into and precedes the other.
Now to be honest, I don't know exactly what this means or how it's gonna play out. I'm connecting some dots here and have a few examples, predictions and hopes.
EDIT: Cracked posted an article today[1] talking about some of what I didn't get into. It's pretty on point for a fucking comedy site.Examples:
UBER, LYFT, Air BnB, 3D Printing, Lynda, Code College, the sharing economy, micro jobs, basic income, big data.
Anonymous, Occupy, Hacktivism, paypal, bitcoin.
Social Media in general disrupting the MSM Iron grip on the zeitgeist. Do they have shills? Are they fighting for control? Yes. But that's the point. It's a battle.
Driver free cars, autonomous everything, the cloud, internet of things, mobile everything, advanced robotics, electric cars, space xPREDICTIONS
Toffler and Mcluhan talked a lot about how the industrial revolution changed everything from our concept of time and space to that of wealth creation (and meaning) and our politics. One thing historians have in common with futurists is that they but talk about the influence new technology has on everything from fashion to love to war to death itself.In short, without getting too specific. Take all of your assumptions about democracy and government. What war is and how its fought. What wealth is and what power is and what violence is. Now imagine a self Driving UBER smashing through all of them. Imagine 3D printing a workaround, imagine standing on the shoulders of the cloud. Get it? Instead of a top down bureaucracy running everything imagine a Local User Solutions Team (or L.U.S.T) Kind of like how this forum has admin, mods and users all contributing to the betterment of the forum in their own distinct ways. Instead of cops imagine a volunteer Enforcement Authority Team or E.A.T.
In everything remove the profit motive, and the singular identity aspect. No more fear or profit based control mechanisms. It's more about self sustaining first and community second. Look at the way start ups work. It's more like the bridge of the enterprise than the bridge of a star destroyer. This influence is going to reverberate through out every organizational paradigm.
HOPES
De-standardization and decentralization will inevitably fragment every existing Institution, Industry and Idea it touches. I call this 'The Three Deaths of I." Now i'm not talking about a Anarchist utopia here. There will probably be a lot of blood shed, a lot of death and a lot of spasms and twitches as the world as we know it changes. Remember that scene when Louis's human body died as he became a vampire? The terrible convulsions and seizures? The vomiting and his inability to eat normal food? O.K that. But applied to the world at large. As we spit up standardization and bureaucracy and grow a new nervous system, find new sources of energy.We're on the brink of a change that would mimic hunter gatherers tribes aggregating as agricultural communities. We're talking about a change on the level of inventing the written word and the printing press. This is the industrial revolution on both speed and acid.
My Hope is that the human race will have some sort of mass awakening to their own potential and power. Imagine an Elon Musk or a Steve Job for progress, not profit. There will be a return to tribalism after we accept that it's not about state vs state and border vs border but rather about just 1 tribe: the human race.
IN CLOSING
Everybody around here seems pretty cynical in their certainty that the powers that be are just gonna use it as an excuse to _______ then _______ and finally take over the world as a one world government. I agree that globalization is inevitable But it doesn't have to be distasteful. I disagree that the powers that currently be are going to be the ones who always are. That they'll impose some 700 year old plan on mankind, that we'll either be marching lock step to their tune or exterminated outright. Imagine every NWO doomsday scenario that has been spoon fed to you by alternate media and then just... disrupt it. I'm not saying they won't try it I'm saying it's not gonna work.
I think religion will have to die. All of them. Not just the forgotten sins of the Christians or the current villain du jour (the muslims) or the totally and inescapably perfect jews. But all of them. We'll need new and constantly evolving philosophies. We'll need to embrace science and not worship it. We'll need new ideas, good ideas, the means to share and implement them on a rapid scale. Instead of an "NWO" I imagine a Global Recognition of Organized Consciousness" or G.R.O.C. Now G.R.O.C will have it's faults but it'll have a lot more upsides. I believe that a warts and all disruption renaissance is more likely and more palatable than any straight line out of the headlines or millennia old doomsday scenario. In short...
The future is.--