I’ve been beating this drum for a long time. I’m Gen X, middle class, that witnessed from the earliest age dramatic technological breakthroughs after breakthroughs. The list is long and I witnessed the impact/ implications in real time. Each time, I had that feeling of the great waves upon us, and knew I had to be adaptive if anything else, and keep my eyes and ears open to all changes to come if I want to survive and hopefully thrive. At the midpoint of my life, my younger self would not have been able to conceive in imagination the possibilities and realities of now. Even though my younger self was part of the first wave of home computer users (hacking/gaming) and later, internet adoption. Then I was an informed reader of the fringes technology and culture just on the horizon at the time (Wired Magazine, starting with issue 1).

Today, I still have that same feeling of the great wave upon us, but this one feels magnitudes larger that the past waves. My feels tells me there is no comparison, there is no way to even begin to have a general sense of the vector of change upon our society with little sense of predictability of time of change. We are like Jules Vern predicting spooky theory, the best of us is lacking any accuracy in predicting s ope of change, rate of change, and emergent transformations that supersede change.

So plan accordingly as best as you are able. Everything will be disrupted, that’s obvious at this point. I’m not saying doom or gloom, but change will be painful for many I presume.

I take a stoic point of view these days. Be excited and learn and adapt, yet call your family, find good friends, and if you are lucky to have love, then be grateful. My point is, technology will change and we can race to adapt as fast as humanly possible, but don’t forget just to be human and be human to each other, and live with no regrets at the end of each day.

And go for a hike, hug a 🌳