Let’s face it: nothing surprises us anymore. We’ve seen it all. We’ve had too much of dead values and fragmented memories. As long as the human brain’s ability to make plans relies upon the ability to generate memories, there, apparently, might not be any future for us. The world had gone mad for quite a while now. Which makes us find ourselves deeper and deeper in this absurdity every day. The more extravagant, poisonous, and intrusive events become, the more accustomed we feel to them. A bewildering feeling of powerlessness and madness is in the air. It is not comfort that we search for in these circumstances. We long for meaning. There is plenty of complexity and affluence in this world with cryptocurrencies, blockchains, and the constant blurring of boundaries between the real and the virtual. Still, we want almost nothing at all. We want to start ‘wanting’ again.
The problem is that our reality has ceased to be real. A whole generation has been born and raised straight into a virtual world. The Baby Boomers, Generation X, and elder Millennials could never have dreamed of the peculiarities of the new war which their children are waging. They can get almost anything by double clicking a touchpad. They try to develop a natural human consciousness while peering eternally through an electronic stained-glass window in the palm of their hand. They have dopamine outbursts released in their brain as a response to “likes”. There you have it, the chemical makeup of the human body is responding to the new virtual abstractions, such as likes and shares on social networks, and releasing neurotransmitters linked to sensations of happiness and satisfaction. This also means that for a 14-year-old girl not getting likes on her newest selfie might be a painful experience. Here, the big tears start getting ready to drop.
Since virtual reality became more real than actual reality, a simple symbol under a post on the internet seemingly turns into the only way to convey sympathy, friendship, and even love. That is too much of a burden for a mere “like” or digital heart. Their lifespan is very short. A like only lives in the moment of scrolling, only in this instant can others see that a post has received a like. But as soon as the old like sinks beneath the bottom of the screen, underneath the onslaught of fresh content, you need a new like. Thus, the Sisyphean struggle of contemporary life goes on and on.
This thirst for appreciation, and this process of finding self-worth on the screen cannot go unnoticed for juvenile mental health. There is a growing concern about the correlation between increased immersion on social media and a rise in anxiety and depression among the youth. All the hard-earned likes are forgotten so swiftly that honest and truly fearful questions like “Why bother at all?” and “What’s the point?” can’t help but dominate the online discourse. If it doesn’t scare you that much, well, it should.
THE ARRIVAL OF NIMSES: TIME MADE TANGIBLE
Society has to provide its coming generations with viable new set of values, so we tackle these fears. The one problem with the issue of value is that during the past 2000 years or so, there has been a major overuse of the most basic ideas and ideologies. There can hardly be any next big thing. Actually, there’s seemingly only one big thing left: time.
Take, for instance, 120 years of human life. They consist of 63,115,200 minutes. Imagine that these minutes are actually an agreed upon sign of value. Call this value a nim. One nim is equivalent to one minute lived by one human. With time being the greatest unifier, that means that for every human being, 24 hours on Earth yields 1440 nims. That’s how many minutes there are in one day.
Albeit being the most abstract thing of all, time might be the last tangible resource a man can truly rely on. The number of people living is finite. The lifetime of all these people is also finite. Which gives us the opportunity to perform artificial economic modeling. In terms of the global economy, minutes of life are a more predictable asset than gold, oil or any other commodity. That’s why human time replacing money is not a myth. It’s in the math.
Nimses is a technological solution that is not striving to gain its market share; it is not a business in a traditional sense. Nimses was created to provide something more than money, bitcoins or likes could ever offer. Nimses attempts to deal with time in a non-linear way, different from the way that we have all grown accustomed to throughout the evolution of the human race.
Nimses is also not just another social network; it’s an entire anthroposystem that hinges on a constant value that is safe from the winds of change and shifting paradigms.
It is the architecture of interconnected technologies: a mobile app, web-systems, media platform, ads platform, content verification system and more. All these components and entities are transparent and auditable. The Nimses technological architecture is able to integrate all the existing local offline and online economies in a single planetary economic environment.
The virtual world came to be so huge and disorienting that the real, the real human being in particular, came to be too small to matter. However, we are not lost yet. What Nimses brings seems to be a real solution to our fears. Perhaps the key is to stop treating time metaphorically, and start treating it as a real resource.
