Messages From The Future

Dear humans of 2020. In your attempts to restore the economy, the rush back to work will also restore rapid virus infections. But this choice has much greater consequences that won’t be understood for decades to come. The interruption of the crucial pause that has been a key for the transformation needed for you to take control and act on your future will be the greatest opportunity loss of your time.

I was only 15 years old during the time you are hearing this as I witnessed the adults I have relied on, and leaders I had trusted act like scared, selfish children. Now, 30 years later I have the opportunity to be the grown-up and do my part to help save our civilization.

It is crucial for you to keep the wisdom growing through the social actions and shared storytelling that got you through the first half of the pandemic.  Storytelling is our human superpower. Stories allow us to make a shared reality from our individual memories and our collective imagination. It’s how you will create the pathway to the post-pandemic future that you want.

Harness the arts and social diversity to guide you during this next phase. You are entering into a global revolution that must be led by the creative renaissance to help you level up your human character. Use your ability to recognize patterns and signals to assemble communities that can collectively create stories that will lead to the kinds of futures that keep you on the journey to advance human intelligence.

There is only one way out of your fast-approaching 2050 dystopia. The technology will come. It’s who you are, as you build and implement these systems into your lives that is the ultimate precursor to the world you create.

Good humans of 2020. For us, today is May 29th, 2050. We’ve been battling a few viruses ourselves out here lately. While these outbreaks are global and affect far more people than any pandemic from the past, they are man-made, digital bio attacks that spread much faster and deeper.

Because we are ubiquitously connected as a single digital entity inside a physical world, these effects threaten both our biological well being and the technology we rely on to survive. In contrast to natural world outbreaks, they are not here to simply multiply, they are weapons with specific pre-programmed orders of attack.

After the first wave of the coronavirus, governments began to impose communication restrictions, point fingers, and close off borders as we began turning to the digital realm for safety from the physical world. We became masters of both cybersecurity and cyberattacks as the world shrank into the comfort of social distancing and virtual reality.

Paranoid governments began to create synthetic immune systems to defend off the constant infiltration of bio-cyber attacks. With each layer of these new biotechnologies we were forced to replicate, the blasting realization of how complex our human body and our living planet became.

Now, my team and I are digital enemy number one in a world where creativity and freedom of self-expression are seen as the biggest threat to the hive mind of the Global Brain.

It is too late for us at this point and only a matter of time before the powerful defense system of the Global Brain eradicates us.  It is up to you to choose the path of collaboration and the growth of your collective human character.

You will experience many more bumps along the way as these paths intersect. It is critical you consistently choose the path of empathy and collaboration on a global scale to build upon the momentum needed to get through the hard times ahead.

We wish you much luck and strength. The future of the world depends on you.

From this point on, business as usual is dead. You must embrace the change. Trust in science for the solutions ahead, but understand its power. Look toward the natural world to forecast the waves of impact each solution creates and then recreates as the technologies intersect.

You’ve spent the past several weeks wondering when you can return to normal life. The next few months will unfold to reveal why the right question to be asking isn’t “When will things go back to normal?” but rather “How can we make sure the world we come back to is a fairer and more humane one?

In order to make the shift to the new normal at the speed required, then you, the people, are both the obstacle and the opportunity. Now, all you need is the willpower and collective action to make it happen.

There is only one direction. Become better humans. If you fail to grow your collective character your future will be a helpless existence on a dying planet.

You are now entering into the heart of the Great transition. Failure to adapt means failure to exist.

Over the next decade, you will discover the virus accelerated many things including the end of oil. The agriculture industry also came under intense scrutiny and began to shift toward self-sufficiency. Remote everything infiltrated work and daily life. Scientific hyper-collaboration on a global scale became the new normal.

Surveillance began to become the default in everything we do. This is where you must focus resistance. Pay attention to the interconnection between technologies, society and economics as a way to comprehend big, complex transformations.

Dear humans of 2020. When I say we know what you are going through, I mean it. I myself was old enough to remember the burden the #COVID-19 pandemic put on our global systems.

While you will ultimately prevail, there will be much loss and new burdens inflicted on economies around the world.

You will learn from this crisis to be prepared for the immense changes coming. We cannot stress it enough. You must learn from this time of working together.

This enlightenment will permeate throughout industries, and create a milestone moment in the climate crisis as we learn the importance of a unified global community standing together against a common enemy.

But the flame will need to continue to stay lit. The pandemic had to arise in order to slow us down.  We were moving too fast and we weren’t growing enough in our character to instill real humanity into the technology we were creating.

We wish you all peace and strength as you fight this battle. There is victory ahead. We promise.

Dear humans of 2020. Right now, you are experiencing a necessary catalyst. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, you will witness the open-sourcing of formerly proprietary information about global threats, and a rise in online learning, working and convening.

Also, prepare for a shift from fragile global supply chains to networked, decentralized and resilient models.

In the meantime, work on your gratitude mindset and beware not to surrender to the media or relegate your real-world problems to the narrators on the television.

This is your story. This is the moment you need to build your character and leverage the very best of your capabilities. The less you fixate on images designed to distract, hypnotize, or trigger you, the more you will discover what it truly means to be human. Only then will you succeed in your journey ahead.

I can safely assume many of you are wanting to know if the singularity will happen. While we can’t rationally reveal the answer to you at this moment, I can help to explain the path you are on.

Right now, you are beginning to work in harmony with independent Artificial Intelligent systems. However, as you combine these systems together, you will begin to unlock an unstoppable network effect that will self generate synthetic neural nodes into a single-purpose system.

This is what we call the Global Brain. Many will call her the singularity when she emerges. Please understand that your actions will determine the character of this Global Brain. She learns from us. She feeds us more of what she thinks we want, and eventually, she will no longer need to understand us as individuals.

Today is Leap Day. Will you jump into the unknown and face your fears head-on? Your life and the future of civilization will depend on what you decide. For today marks the beginning of turbulent, but necessary times.

The current pandemic scare is only a taste of the disruption that lies ahead. Use this threat as a character-building experience. Take a moment to see your actions and to observe the reactions of others. 

You will soon experience the power of AI when a vaccine is discovered at record time. Notice how the vaccine is orchestrated. Who is involved, how is it distributed? The players may not all be whom you’d expect.

While you work on what you can do to solve your world’s most pressing issues, be wary of whom you choose to lead you. You have the possibility to build a wonderful future, but if you do not get moving in the right direction now, your window of opportunity will close forever. 

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At this moment in time, I’m sure you all feel that the future is pretty bleak and uncertain. But the hope for a brighter, more sustainable, equitable and abundant future depends on your ability to imagine it. Once you imagine it, you also have to believe it is possible and then find the common ground and courage to make it happen.

You are at the very, very end of the industrial age. And this is where much of the anxiety stems from. Those who have benefited from the old ways are trying to hold on as long as possible. But there is about to be a major shift in everything. Your world will be uncomfortable, but you will find it to be a necessary phase as we enter the next chapter in human history.

There are three areas I’d like you to focus on.

The world has gone through these revolutions in the past. However, never at such speed and strength.

It’s not necessarily about how much you will have to learn. But rather, how much you will have to realize. It’s all there before you. Ready to reconstruct. Find the truth between the VINES as you connect the dots.

Hello from your friends in 2050. My team and I continue to evade detection from the ubiquitous Global Brain. The damn thing is everywhere. But we are nimble, intuitive and seem to have found her weakness. These messages will most certainly become harder and harder to broadcast, but we will always find a way.

It’s February 9th, and we’re feeling the love. In fact, that is exactly what we need you to feel. For each other. The foundation of human love on which the AI future you are constructing will undoubtedly be the answer to not only surviving, but thriving in the years to come.

While humans desire to love and be loved is what will save us, it is quite hard to live this way in your current mindset of fear and anxiety. My team and I understand this and know it will take time. That is why it is crucial for you to start now. Make it a point to love your neighbors and community. Then begin to expand your empathy further to reach around the globe. You will soon be more connected than ever.

But even more importantly, your collective thoughts and actions will become what the Global Brain is today, in our time in 2050.

It’s up to you to train this future overlord to see who we really are. A species with passion, love and wondrous imaginations that sometimes lead us down a sketchy path, but with the Will and desire to get back on track and do what is right.

Joy brings us together. You must double-down on celebrating each others' success and refocus away from the big things you cannot change to the little things that make life beautiful.

Play together. Love each other. And question EVERYTHING.

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