Twilight of Humans 1.0
Dawn of the New
“First we build the tools, then they build us.”
Marshall McLuhan
Scanning the future horizon for technological convergences in order to anticipate and exploit opportunities and avoid potential pitfalls is our job as entrepreneurs and leaders. And with tech driven disruptions of established order and status quo, we are all leaders and entrepreneurs. We are all at least an army of one.
The following are my thoughts on the most exciting development that we will experience over the next few decades. Its already begun about a decade ago.
Prior knowledge of possible opportunities, dangers or problems gives one a tactical advantage. Forewarned is forearmed.
Our brains are the most complexly organized organisms we have yet to encounter. The human brain is structured in three overlapping layers representing three stages of our evolutionary development.
We basically have three distinct brains. Each has its own structure and wiring. These three structures are interconnected in a distributed high bandwidth manner.
Our oldest brain is the cerebellum. This is our reptilian brain. It is the seat of the unconscious and deals with fight or flight survival issues. It is also the…
