5Mind over Organizational Matter
Drop the negative vibe
and draw a hard line
No fear, no doubt
I'm in control of my mind
Stand behind me
‘Cause I was born to lead
My truth is your dare
Cause today I'm a player
—Playa's Anthem (Orpheus Hanley Soundstation Records 2009)
“By wrapping the world in seamless and digital connectivity we move closer to a world of interdependent economic peace and prosperity. Connectivity is destiny. Functional geography over Political geography.”
—Parag Khanna in his book Connectography
We know that by now a digital sense sounds like something out of Elon Musk's next brilliant bag of science-fiction-turned-reality tricks. For those of us under the age of 65, in our lifetime there probably will be a true digital sense—sixth sense—layer of consciousness available to allow human beings to keep pace with our technological and AI inventions. Many futurists, from Ray Kurzweil to Gerd Leonhard, have predicted the singularity will occur as early as 2023.
At the 2016 RE/CODE conference,1 Musk even hinted that he believed a digital layer embedded into our consciousness would be a good idea for humanity, as a means to augment our painfully slow evolutionary biology, ...
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