Technologies by themselves are insufficient unless they are coupled with new principles for organizing humanity, however.
The time is right for a new generation of enterprises to disrupt today’s platforms by marrying these technologies with stakeholder principles and mission-driven approaches to management and governance. These new entities will rewrite today’s code by disrupting the code within the code.
Our Future with Machines
The job before this next generation is to transform our wonder about technology into a new wonder for technology. It is not a love of machines that we need, however, but rather an awe and reverence for what humanity is capable of through machines. The same revolution in automation and artificial intelligence that today eats jobs and dangerously accelerates the destructive impacts of unbridled capitalism also has the potential to create much good in the world.
We are today, quite literally, defining humanity’s future with machines. This relationship will redefine the nature of work, just as it will redefine our understanding of humanity’s role in the world. We are what connects the Tree of Life with the Tree of Knowledge—an essential part of the synthetic intelligence now arising on this planet. It is now time for an intervention: a new era of enterprises dedicated to rewriting the code upon which this new intelligence is built.