Hi List,

  I saw this posted to Mark’s Center for Digital Life List, and thought it would be good to be shared here. https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-dca28385-9508-412d-8c1a-ec2189c15354.html

   It offers some good reflections on this being a very chaotic time in history. I see us as being in a place of “fragmented pluralism,” which is producing existential angst. And this at a time when the rapid technological changes are changing us and the planet around us in fundamental ways. In “experimental” terms: “take a confused and interconnected talking ape and massively change the environment and give them hope that anything is possible, create huge levels of status inequality, change the lifestyle playing field dramatically, and then see what happens. Oh, and for a kicker, as a reflection of this fragmented pluralism, elect a chaotic disrupter with poor character values to the most powerful job on the planet!

Yes, flux will follow. The question is where and how will it settle. Will we be able to use the disruption to chart a new, adaptive course? Or will the chaos grow and grow and threaten the entire infrastructure and place the world in the brink of (or in actual) catastrophe?

Just some cheery thoughts for a Saturday morning 😊.

Best,
G


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