I still remember back in the 90s when the personal computer started to become accessible to most people and to hear many of us saying oh,
Now the computers are doing most of our work now we're going to have so much more time time to be with our family,
With our friends time to enjoy life or later,
In the 2000s with the emergence of Google and the explosion of the internet and to hear my friends and I saying oh,
Now we have all the world's information available at the tips of our fingers now we can learn whatever we want faster,
And we can become wiser or even later,
With the emergence of social media where many of us were excited with the possibility of expanding our networks of knowing more people and feeling more connected however,
If we look carefully we have less time than ever we are dumber than ever and we are more isolated than ever the number of mental illnesses autoimmune diseases and suicides is rising societies are increasingly polarized and there is almost no space for deep and authentic dialogues anymore and lastly,
The earth is falling into a spiral of natural disasters a recent UN report estimates that by 2030 we will have around 560 natural disasters per year that gives around 1.
5 per day so when I hear about the rise of AI and the new things like the metaverse I notice my body contracting and all my alarms going on not that I have anything against technology on the contrary I'm very grateful for all the technological advances I've witnessed and benefited from my concern is more with the use we humans will give to those technologies many of us use technology as escapism to distract ourselves from the pain and suffering that we carry inside the emptiness we feel inside we are trying to fill those same inner holes with social media approval pornography,
Workaholism,
TV series shopping,
Drugs,
Alcohol and so on it is never enough that is because the root cause of that distraction is never addressed and we continue to look for more distractions for bigger,
Better,
Faster,
More so how can we design technology that helps us flourish instead of being even more disconnected disconnected from ourselves from one another and from life because flourishing is about wholeness alignment with our higher self our innate basic sanity and wisdom to connect with the people around us from a place of compassion and to be fully present with the world around us to be fully present to life it is really about sensing what life wants to leave through us and then having the courage courage,
A word that has its roots in the latin word for heart having the courage to be vulnerable to step in that direction it is about authenticity,
Integration and union it's about love love in the most profound meaning of the word love love towards ourselves love towards all beings around us love towards life it's about beauty the beauty of being who we truly are without masks,
Scabisms and vials it's about becoming whole again so how can we design for wholeness how can we design for authenticity how can we design for beauty for love,
For life that's I believe the challenge we face now as humans and the answer we will give to it we'll craft our future we'll craft our destiny as a species and the planet as a whole
