The Future ain't Digital

It seems a challenge to be natural in our increasingly unnatural digital world. As we look towards the quickening waves of technology and their artificial intelligences. Washing away human work. Drawing a line under what has gone before. Data and its algorithms seemingly controlling the future.

I'm noticing other conversations now that offer glimpses of a different future. A turning away from the thrall of technology. It seems radical to suggest that we might look instead into ourselves, as we create our future. To turn back and reclaim a more human-centred future. A future on our own terms, less digital more human. Rather than yielding to those brash technocrats and their over-hyped promises.

I'm remembering those things that make us the most social and adaptable creatures ever. Working to amplify and develop those strengths that will never be digital. Those qualities that distinguish and differentiate us from those machines that we use and increasingly populate our lives.

If you work with people, I talking about imagination, intuition, wisdom, insight, empathy, persistence, creativity, authenticity, ...

from a longer piece written in 2019.