As the world continues to get faster and faster, (I honestly never thought it could get faster than it was in 2015, and now that looks like a snail's pace).
So, we lose the things that were important to us the most.
First of all, we lose time, because now there is so much incoming that when we previously talked about drinking from a fire hose, now it feels as if we're standing at the base of the Hoover Dam and someone cracks it in half, as it starts to tumble towards us. Almost everyone has an inability to turn off a lot of the incoming, and therefore, you're constantly distracted, and your time is sucked away.
Secondly, we have so much less time to have deep and meaningful conversations or to take on board the deep and meaningful information; everyone is coded now for 15 seconds or 60 seconds of information. All the videos you record promoting the course or promoting the thing that you're doing next for the company, or anything, have to be under 60 seconds because the attention span is too short.
And then thirdly, the care and the kindness thing, we don't have time for this. You need to hustle, move, be fast, get as much done as you can, and then as soon as you're finished in your working day and you click open the supercomputer in your pocket, there's a 1000 more pieces of them coming.
No time to be kind, no time to do that thing which has no return or no value, but it's just decent.
We'll be sorry when this is all gone. We'll be sorry when all we've got is to book online, to check in on an iPad, and to see the robot.
And it's coming.
This was Blade Runner, all those years ago. I remember watching it and thinking the future will never be like that.
And now it is.
Blog Post Number - 4339
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