We work to pay the bills, go on holidays, post Instagram pictures, and raise kids - a future generation that has to live with the consequences of our unconscious decisions, today. Most of us go through the motions in our day to day lives.

That part requires conscious choice and awareness, you can also call it mindfulness. Technology is giving us access to knowledge and power, but it can’t give us the wisdom to use this power sensibly. In 2020, you can access more knowledge at the touch of a screen on your smartphone than what was accessible to the President of the United State in the 1990. What kind of device are you reading this article on, right now? Your phone, tablet, or personal computer? But what if you weren’t fully aware of the amount of knowledge (and power) that you had? If you think you don’t have a huge amount of knowledge and power to impact the world around you, think again. We also know that “with great power comes great responsibility”. Now, we’ve all heard that “knowledge is power”. This means that our knowledge is growing at an unprecedented speed and information is more accessible to us than ever before. The truth is that within a few short decades the digital revolution has grown into an incredibly powerful force with a life of its own. These sentiments were expressed by one of the most influential people in technology, if not the most influential person, on our planet. On the surface this may sound like a science fiction debate that has no bearing on our “real lives”, but it’s far from it. He describes a heated after-dinner debate that he witnessed between Elon Musk and Larry Page where, in defence of his “digital utopian” views, Page accused Musk of being “specieist”, since he was “treating certain lifeforms as inferior just because they were silicone-based, rather than carbon-based.” (Tegmark, 2018) I was researching for my upcoming book on the future of work, when I came across a passage in, “Life 3.0”, by professor Max Tegmark of MIT. Let me start this article by sharing a shocking revelation that I recently discovered about Larry Page, the co-founder of Google.

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