Time seems to speed up. My granny used to complain that she could not recognise the world around her anymore. For her, technology was shocking. She had difficulties to believe that astronauts walked on the moon.
Changes are quite subtle nowadays. Though fashion hasn’t changed much, our habits and routines, like the way of working, our means of communication or even shopping, have totally changed.
Study
Cloud architect. Behavioral health technician. Knowledge manager. Did any one of them exist 20 years ago? Do we know anything about job titles in 20 years now? How will we prepare our kids to life? One thing is sure, the WHAT doesn't matter anymore, as it becomes obsolete overnight.
Students take out loans and start their life deep in debt, with limited job opportunities and little hope to have their own home.
There is a solution
Work
We are in constant stress for getting or losing jobs and retraining ourselves. We have become eeny-weeny gears in a large machine, specialising in small parts. Jobs are mostly source of income, not source of joy. Though not money but time is our most precious asset and we convert time into money then money to objects. We have more wealth on average than any man throughout the history, but we feel miserable and shallow, maybe unhealthy, too.
There is a solution
Alienation
We don’t know anything about things we buy, we wear, we eat. We eat food we have no idea what is in it (plastic particles sure, and maybe some antibiotics, pesticide and other chemicals) and where does it come from.
Why is it an issue? This is globalisation.
Because a society which is not able to provide basic needs locally (food, clothing), vulnerable to external shock. In case of energy or climate emergency we will have to rely on local resources.
There is a solution
Democracy is dead
Yeah, we have some barmy prime ministers around the world, but let’s not blame the constituents about it. On one hand, we have a limited selection of politicians, people who have enough money to run for election. On the other hand, election promises have become so complex that common citizens give their votes by sympathy ('look at that handsome smile, he will be fine as my MP') rather than facts. On the top of it, with the help of technology now we are brainwashed. We don’t know anymore if a specific opinion is ours or we are tricked to think that way.
There is a solution
Privacy is under threat
By doing some search in a topic I am interested in, a window pops up sooner or later, offering a free ebook. Just give your email address. “When something is free, you are the product”, as the saying goes. People voluntarily expose their whole lives on socal media. They argue, it is only visible by their friends and relatives. However the data is stored and preserved and you don’t need a human to see it, to set up a detailed profile of you. If AI knows everything about you, internet companies can bombard you with precise advertisements and offers. No data breach, after all no human reads your mails. Only the machine, and it analyses and sorts its content. You are watched and manipulated.
There is a solution
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