Nothing To Do…
Sounds great, right? Your days are completely carefree and you can fill each 24 hour period exactly as you wish… A DREAM… that might someday very much become reality. And possibly a nightmare for most…
Last night, I went to the movies and saw, “The AI Doc… or How I Became an Apocoloptimist.” It was a very well done documentary about the current emergence and the future possibilities of AI and the world, or worlds, it might possibly create. I admit, it was unsettling to me. It was a well-done film… but there was one aspect that definitely piqued my interest. In the coming future, there will come a time when AI frees humanity of most menial tasks and creates an abundance of “free time.” Time in one’s day where we will not be directed by others or any aspects of society, but free to pursue whatever interests us as individuals. Sounds idyllic. I believe the documentary posed the question, “Is humanity ready?”
I am not even going to pretend to know the answer to that question… or a multitude of different questions that were brought up… but I do know this. A majority of the work I do now with kids, and some adults, and the driving force behind EVERY project I am working on in my life at this moment is how do we find and pursue mission and purpose in our lives, as individual human beings, from the inside out. In thinking about this, just as I was walking home and before I fell asleep, and for a short time this morning, up until this point in history, our “purpose” in this life has always been “external”, meaning it came from outside of our own selves. In many ways, up until this point in history, our purpose in our lives has been forced upon us by others. As humanity, what will happen if there is not a “need” for us to do “anything?”
Sounds great, right? You get to choose. You are free! Life is wonderful! Yay!!! BUT… where… and how… do we find purpose? Meaning? Drive? Passion? What motivates us? What makes us happy? Content? Satisfied with our days? Our lives? Our choices? Our moments? All I will say is this. I have NO IDEA how AI is going to impact my own life… but I AM CERTAIN I will spend the rest of my days trying to help others deal with how AI is impacting their lives… this will be MY PURPOSE! MY MISSION! This is what will GIVE MEANING to my life… and you?