Can the Future be Evenly Distributed?
Are there hints of what's generally to come if we look around the edges a bit?
Early in my adult life, I came across the futurist quote from William Gibson: "The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
And while it’s use has, in the decades since, been heartily overused (and others saying it should stop being used), the mind-blowing concept of “the future” was no longer something out there as though it were the veil of a rainstorm you can watch coming across the prairie floor toward you.
In my mind, this idea spawned the glimpse in me that the future, so-called, is really something happening simultaneously all around us, yet individually, we are all experiencing a slightly different future at every given moment. We are always touching things or hearing things that might be the next big thing, but who knows what will take off and spark the next zeitgeist of technical or cultural revolution and what will comparatively die on the vine.
If you look at the right things, can you see the future?
I began to sense the desire, the need, to seek and discover these worlds within worlds, and hope if I could to peer somewhat around the corner — just a touch — and perhaps come in contact with signals that, if I was attuned, might present me just a bit of foresight into what the future might hold someday.
(Or maybe I am just a sci-fi nerd looking for an outlet)
We shall see.
Five Pillars of the Future
As far as I can sense, the things of the future that I particularly have become attuned to can be generally grouped into a few areas of interest where I have some experience:
Money: How we will exchange value for things or time
Work: How will humans spend their time, their energies and talents. How will they be rewarded monetarily or socially for that exchange?
Tech: Especially the superhumanization of everything
Love: How will humans care about other humans when the definition of humanness itself is changing.
Home: Where and how we live both physically, financially, emotionally and digitally.
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I’m excited to see what tomorrow brings!