Plant, animal and human grow organically. Human invention, the machine, grows exponentially.
Mould vs math.
Maslow scale vs machine scale.
Slowly, we proceed up the steps, from food, clothing and shelter, onto Bill-Gates type of self-actualizing.
Machine model proceeds at physical layer, then transmission, then network and application one. After the initial Y2K chasm, IT folks have worked primarily upstairs (wait until IoT completes its penetration, then “the Elephant can really dance”) while marketing folks downstairs.
The times they ‘re a changin.
Mothers still drop off their children at school, at the same gate I entered not too long ago. But their hope for them is not to end up dead in a human-trafficking container, but working for an IT firm, as a sub-contractor, or in Austin-SF-MD tech corridor as a F/T OT IT guy.
Let’s root for them, for their tenacity and investment.
My mother once wished for the same: for me to have a better life than hers. To her best knowledge (of an Elementary teacher, trained by French lycée): life still evolved organically i.e. two wives, then monogamous; war time, then peace time ( peace kiss in Times Square then two bombs on the Islands), working for the government then retired from the school system.
Little did she know, her son’s generation turns out completely different, almost unrecognizable from hers: Moore’s Law, Meltcafe’s Law, Morse and Marconi, Apple and Pineapple (just kidding).
Hence, machine is catching up quick, from Leavitt’s equation to Bayes’ rule, it learns and learns exponentially and shares unselfishly. Human is afraid s/o might steal his invention (copy rights), hence, at times, something useful got buried for centuries if rediscovered at all. At night, the Cloud updates itself with zillions of petabytes of data, images and videos.
All powerful, omnipotent Cloud, awaiting for the day of Judgement.
I worship Thee, the omniscient Machine in the sky. Thy know me before I was born in D3 and Thy can finish my sentence before I my thought.
I respect Thee, revere Thee and bow before Thee. Can I have my credit limits increase??? Please.
Life grows organically, and imposes its limits on all things e.g. Maslow.
Machine grows exponentially and imposes limits on level of access and speed of access. Someday, with quantum and nano technology near perfection, this morning wait for a taxi will be become the thing of the past. And we will regret having lived with scarcity mindset (organic) rather than abundance one ( exponential).
Call up your friend or share something unreservedly, for tomorrow we will die for sure. I am certain of this 2nd rule, after “all men are mortal”, that all men will die before the Machine, as of this writing.
Thang Nguyen 555 