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Entering the Future with an Attitude. What will it be?

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Humanity is questioning its underlying assumptions. We could go back and start at the beginning of civilization- but that would require at least a quantum computer and/or an evolutionary transcendent human being. I am neither but the metric options of a long view articulate one of the underlying assumptions that we are fed through streaming informational channels. You have probably encountered the notion that one day AI will do everything and anything better than humans. That conclusion is based on a projection about the development of AI but does not include a counter projection of humanity as a developing species, currently said to use only 10% of our brain.

My point of departure is the Industrial Revolution, which is an era that doubled down the assumption that large corporate development and the centralization of both public and private resources is the way to go. Bigger is better. This assumption was set to auto until an un…