One Leg in Two Worlds
In this moment of our collective evolution, we have one leg in two worlds. One leg, still married to the world we’ve grown accustomed to, with its clarity and blueprints. But the security that this way once promised is fading as our new world is birthed. The technical evolution taking place has and will continue to shift our ways of working, living, and what it means to be human at its core. This birth will not be painless, we are currently experiencing a chilling labor.
With many dismissed from the workforce and a job market unable to accommodate the unemployed, it is natural to grasp for remnants of the known. To press firmly in the foot behind us. However, that world will only hold for so long as the new one comes to fruition. It is pertinent that we attempt to get ahead of reacting to each contraction through future casting what can be when the delivery is complete.
With Artificial Intelligence being soon capable of completing all previous “human” tasks, what will there be left for us to do? How will we make money? How will we live? These are the questions keeping so many up at night.
Being in this liminal space of evolution is both thrilling and terrifying. For so long, while our systems of working and living have been keeping most people fed and ‘alive’, they haven’t been doing it well (quote stats on homelessness, malnutrition, lack of fulfillment, rates of depression). There has been a growing percolation of meaninglessness, chaos, and disdain. Our human desires for purpose have been pushed to the wayside in the pursuit of endless growth models and power hungry individuals who seem almost alien with their disconnection to the mutual survival of their own species.
We have long moved past the need to work 40 hours a week and yet, that has still been the expectation – with many office workers twiddling their thumbs during their 9-5. The power of the ruling class, which is held both through perception and tangible resources, keeps the masses in a state of fear and lack of imagination to create a birth plan for the new world that is already crowning in the birth canal.
