{"id":2038,"date":"2018-05-15T22:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T06:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2018-05-16T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T17:07:55","slug":"an-evolving-manifesto-for-earthlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/an-evolving-manifesto-for-earthlings\/","title":{"rendered":"An evolving manifesto for earthlings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The evidence behind the Big Bang can explain how our universe developed from 10-43<\/sup> seconds<\/a>. Anything before \u201cthe bang\u201d, however, science has no evidence and its reserved for the philosophers.<\/p>\n

Following our own personal \u2018bang\u2019 into this world and as we grow as humans, we learn a fact that we spend the rest of our lives ignoring. That being, we all die some day.<\/p>\n

But despite this mystery and gift of life, there is another fact that would pay dividends to be more consciously aware. That being, the human species is evolving, like how a stronger lit light fills a room more fully. We take our gift of life for granted, and it\u2019s only when we lose it \u2014 ‘it’ being our health \u2014 that we can truly appreciate life. Building on those ideas, let me get to the point: the survival of our species is constantly under threat and we have no time to waste.<\/p>\n

Meteoric objects that wiped out the dinosaurs are one good historical reason why we need to rush as I don’t think we’ll have much time to plan for it. For me, it\u2019s more exciting: there\u2019s a whole multi-verse out there for us to see.<\/p>\n

Whilst we are destined to all die one day, our life shouldn’t be wasted.
\nWe all should contribute to the future of humanity. I believe there are seven broad areas, from my vantage view, that could do with more engagement.<\/p>\n

(1) Automation<\/strong>
\nMetric of success: percentage of the population that is able to work in the other sectors I list below. The more, the better.<\/em>
\nAutomation is a hot topic in industry and government alike, and for good reason: it\u2019s happening, fast. But while industry is focussed on creating the automation, everyone else is fretting about the impacts it could create, which is mass structural unemployment.<\/p>\n

Let me focus on why automation matters first. If we can automate any process, we should. The reason is for every human performing a service, we are wasting our collective opportunity by not having those people focussing on building our future (more on that below).<\/p>\n

The issue of jobs disappearing is a temporary issue but it\u2019s real. I prefer to call it \u201cfriction\u201d as we retrain people to work on new types of jobs. Keep reading.<\/p>\n

(2) Learning<\/strong>
\nMetric of success: structural\u00a0unemployment rate is nil<\/em>
\nEducation is the institionalisation of learning (but it doesn\u2019t have the monopoly on it). Learning to me is all encompassing, about the acquisition of knowledge and skills. Automation is one good short term reason where we need to rethink how we can retrain and reskill the workforce to reduce the friction. If automation will advance us, which it will, the speed bump will be our educational system and we \u2014 and by extension our economy \u2014 will only be as dynamic as our ability to learn and relearn.<\/p>\n

School curriculas, learning methods, chips that we can implement in our brain and that query the internet. Whatever gets us to learn anything faster, is where we need to be.<\/p>\n

(3) Sustainabilty<\/strong>
\nMetric of success: we have the ability to terraform another planet and\/or can control Earths environment<\/em>
\nIt doesn\u2019t matter what side of the climate change debate you\u2019re on, logic dictates if it displaces one thing (such as the environment), it will end up costing us in other ways (ultimately our health, or our security!). Our ability to learn how to create sustainable ways of living \u2014 eliminating pollution as a by product, new types of food, methods that will allow us to habitate outside of earth\u2014 will underpin our ability to survive as a species. What we fine tune now on earth will be the model we can replicate across the universe.<\/p>\n

(4) Healthcare<\/strong>
\nMetric of success: all disease is eliminated. Forever.<\/em>
\nIf we could eliminate human disease \u2014 and I include aging as part of that \u2014 imagine how different life would be. There would be less suffering. There would be more knowledge that we retain (by people staying alive) and less opportunity cost (by distracting our focus due to sickness). There would be more \u201cresources\u201d in the form of people working on problems.<\/p>\n

Until we achieve this goal, humanity will be limited, like how a car is limited by its fuel to operate (worsened by it\u2019s fuel tank suffering a leak).<\/p>\n

We have the means to one day eliminate all disease. There is absolutely no good reason why we shouldn\u2019t (and that includes the arguments supporting disease to solve \u2018over-population\u2019: we need as many humans possible to colonise space). Why aren\u2019t we moving faster towards this goal?<\/p>\n

(5) Transportation<\/strong>
\nMetric of success: we can travel from point A to B, instantly<\/em>
\nWith new ways of moving humans, we create new lives. When a city implements public transport, new parts of a city become accessible which allows a spreading out of the population and which in turn reduces housing demand and gives more cash in the hands of the communters. It allows different types of people to mingle to promote social cohesion, much like how NYC has more diversity than any other city I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

Development of transportation leads to improved methods which reduce pollution.
\nIn the long term, our ability to explore new planets gives humanity a capacity to grow our population and uncover new resources, such as asteroid mining for minerals and beyond, to enrich our society.<\/p>\n

Whatever promotes the goal of transportation in this broad sense is arguably one of the biggest activites we can perform to grow the economy.<\/p>\n

(6) Society<\/strong>
\nMetric of success: statistically absent percentages of harm and death caused by other humans<\/em>
\nThere is a lot of division in humanity. Nation state divisions, religious divisions, and racial divisions to name some of the main offenders. It won\u2019t be until we come into contact with the first alien species, and especially one that threatens humanity as a whole, before we collectively wake up and willingly collaborate as a shared consciousness.<\/p>\n

Compassion. Communication. Controlled violence. Power structures that optimise for the utilitarian goal. Whatever promotes social cohesion so as to leverage our collective consciousness rather than divide it, is the activity that will allow us to grow quicker as a force in the universe. To keep with the car analogy, it\u2019s stepping on the accelerator rather than the break, in order to go forward. Technology is after all the\u00a0faustian bargain: once we know how to do something, someone else will use it against us. The only insurance agains that, is by developing our society to prevent abuse.<\/p>\n

(7) Exploration<\/strong>
\nMetric of success: the amount of people we have engaged in exploration.<\/em>
\nI define exploration of the physical, mental and spiritual.<\/p>\n

By exploring our world and our solar system, we create new opportunities for humanity to habitate for our survival or new resources to grow society.
\nBy exploring ideas that lead to scientific answers or philosophical questions, we develop opportunities in the same way, if not more, as physical exploration.
\nAnd by exploring the spiritual; by acknowledging our sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell and cognitive capacity is limited in the same way a smaller antenna is limited in what radio frequencies it can capture, we can open up new worlds. Bats can see infrared light but we can\u2019t. What else can\u2019t we see that prevents us from understanding?<\/p>\n

I’m not saying if you’re working on something that’s not the above, its not a good thing. I’m just saying you’re wasting our<\/em>\u00a0time. This list is not comprehensive, but it\u2019s also fairly broad and encompasses multiple approaches to solving our problems. But it harks back to one idea: what are you doing to propel humanity forward?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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