Before I met Olly, my tech-loving life and business partner, I never gave much thought to technology.
Then he poked holes in my digital dependencies and dragged me (first reluctantly, now with some enthusiasm) into more conscious use of technology. His digital interventions are working. And now?
Now, I have a lot to say about the future of technology.
Here’s what I see in my crystal ball:
Technology will finally take its proper place – not as our ruler, but as a tool to serve humanity.
Right now, technology runs the show like an ill-mannered prince, well personified by Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.
Meet Technical Boy, the new god of the internet. Desperate for validation, hungry for power, and dangerously unpredictable.
“I am mankind’s greatest achievement. I am the compass rose. I am fucking binary. Without me, shit don’t spin. ” – Technical Boy
With Money and Media as allies, Technical Boy lords over us like a petulant child.
But here’s my prediction: Technical Boy will evolve. He will transmorph into the Ancient Future – technology reimagined through the organic principles of nature and indigenous wisdom.
How will this happen? you may ask. Skepticism is understandable when you’re stalked by tracking pixels and targeted advertising, where your private data is sold to the highest bidder.
Technology will transform when we do.
As we wake up to our true nature – the infinite possibility of the Universe in form – we’ll remember that we were never separate from nature. We know ourselves as an expression of Nature itself.
This won’t mean renouncing technology or living in candle-lit hovels with bedpans.
No – we will retain the miraculous interconnectivity of technology and reinvent it as an organic extension of the web of creation where every action nurtures the whole.
When humans take responsibility for their technological choices, the gods of Money, Media and Mr. World will follow.
Technical Boy will emerge from his cocoon as Conscious Technology, a servant of humanity who understands the limits of his powers. His programming is upgraded with the wisdom of ancient traditions who knew our role as the caretakers of our planet and the keepers of embodied culture.
Of course, I can’t actually scry the future. I can’t even predict with absolute certainty what will happen when I get to the end of this sentence.
(Will I keep writing? Will I dissolve into ether? Inquiring minds want to know!)
But this isn’t just a prediction. It’s a sacred wish for the future I want to see. That wish shared is a force of Love in the world that has creative power.
So tell me — what do you dream of for the future of technology and humanity?
Yours in love and play,
Steph
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