All domains of knowledge are connected, so why categorize them in your mind?

Everything is connected to everything else, if you make a move you alter the future in profound ways. Call it the butterfly effect if you like, but there’s a grain of truth to all of this. Not only is your mind wired to deal with interconnectedness, the rest of our world works the same way. Let’s talk, okay? Let’s talk about technology, future, humanity, economy and industry.

There is an interesting video you would like to see titled; “Eric Berlow and Sean Gourley: Mapping Ideas Worth Spreading,” which shows how they took all the TED Talks (147 countries, 27,000 individual talks) and diagrammed them, connecting each one to similar themes in their transcripts. It was amazing how they were connected almost like an intricate mental map. After seeing that, I mentioned it to an acquaintance, Jared Kent, who noted; “How analyzing the connectivity of all different conversations or domains could lead to new advances at an accelerating rate. Consider the amount of innovation taking place in our world on a daily basis.”

I actually liked that TED talk as well because that’s how my mind thinks, yes there are categories created in my brain, everyone does that, because it’s probably easier, but actually at the higher end of cognition that model fails. In fact, I think AI computer scientists have already figured it out and are adjusting their methods to fit the best cognition model: it’s faster, more complete, and leads to cross-pollination between the branches of the scientific tree and the branches of other trees too. .

Jared also points out that as innovation increases across industries because of a breakthrough somewhere, say computers, it has a ripple effect. In fact, he points out that innovation can often “Wipe out entire industries; paper newspapers, movie rentals, watches, alarm clocks, mail, calculators, calendars, cameras…invent those few. A device that affects many, many.” industries”.

Think about it, he’s right, right? Sure it is, yes we are eliminating industries with innovation, but consider this; Industries that rest on their laurels and fail to innovate harm humanity. And then there’s this other problem as well, as we eliminate industries, most of the jobs in those industries would have been eliminated by robots anyway. Even the humans who design and build robots will be replaced, until only one person works controlling all the robots: me? Ha ha ha, what a cool sci-fi tale. I guess you can see why I enjoy the dialogues so much in our expert group.

Jared further points out that we may need to draw a timeline for each industry. He’s right and many industries have done this, and it’s fun to see how Ray Kurzweil at Stanford University’s Singularity Institute has mapped out Moore’s Law, some hiccups yes, but scary when you think about it. Jared Kent also claims that by doing this we can win; “valuable insight into the evolution of all industries” and find out when “the potential breakthrough of an old design that wasn’t possible 20 years ago, but is now due to advanced technology.”

That’s a fun thought worth taking to the end of a possible futures thought experiment. yes, everything will change and if Ray Kurzweil’s theory is 25% correct, imagine the disruption, think China imploding, what to do with all these people? The whole human society will have to adapt to keep going or they will rage into mobs and destroy the place, or not, maybe we will solve the problems of energy, water, food, health in one fell swoop? That changes everything. Right now only about 15% of the population works on system maintenance, what about everyone else?

Yes, we talked about all of this a bit, and it seems like everything will be fine in the end, but the technology is sure to reverse some fortunes and create some new billionaires along the way; it has always been so philosophically speaking. Please consider all this and think about it.