Captains Of Spaceship Earth

SPEAKER: We live in a world of exponential technological

advancements.

What this literally means is that we have new construction

kits for our reality, new tools with which

to probe at the adjacent possible.

So consider the implications.

As Marshall McLuhan used to say, first we build the tools,

and then the tools build us.

We are designed by what we have designed.

There are these feedback loops of mind, tool, and world that

radically redefine our boundaries, that radically

transform what it means to be human.

To be human today is to criss-cross the skies.

To be human today is to create technosocial wormholes ,

mind-to-mind communication that overcomes the limits of time,

the limit of space, and distance.

So what do we do?

Well, we need to radically reach out to one another

in ways we haven't before.

There's a great line that says, empathy rarely extends

beyond our lin-of-sight.

In other words, if it's out of sight, it is out of mind.

But if anything, these wireless communication technologies

are radically extending our line-of-sight.

They provide new ontological maps of the real.

They're giving us the astronaut overview effect.

We are seeing the big picture; we

are seeing that we are the captains of spaceship earth.

And what shall we do?

We need to extend our hands to one another.

We never had such tools to overcome

all of the limitations of our humanity.

We have the power, we have the will,

we have the capacity, the creative capacity,

to overcome our limits.

And so today, billions of us linking to one another,

creating a global node, a global brain.

What is the new definition of billionaire?

The new definition of billionaire

is he who will positively affect the lives of a billion people.

He or she who will reach out and say I

will positively affect the lives of a billion people.