Do you ever wonder what it takes to change the world?
It's not easy to predict what will happen in the future.
Ever since the beginning of things, the world has been defined by eras: the dinosaurs, ice ages, stone ages, dark ages, however one might divide history.
In fact, it feels like the only constant thing about the world is that it is not constant. The diversity of life and the intricacies of things grow over time.
Growth usually happens continuously, in small increments, a refining of the current techniques. Better and better horse-drawn carriages, for example.
But there are also breakthroughs: a complete shift in the scene. The invention of the car.
Breakthroughs occur for a reason: they revolutionize the previous space of possibility. They spread rapidly as they increase the efficiency and potential of current systems.
But the possibilities of the world are limited by the stage on which it runs: dinosaurs never invented airplanes.
Humans, however, invented the meme: the capability to portray infinite complexity within finite space.
Stories, art, religion, writing, logic, mathematics, and technology. A meme is born when the meaning of an idea surpasses the mere physical parts that represent it.
Ever since, it feels like there is no limit to the growth of the world: breakthroughs and refinements of breakthroughs of progress.
But there is a danger, too: as continuous growth gets faster and faster, at some point, there will be a final breakthrough. A leap of progress so revolutionary that it will elevate the current system to a state of unbelievable efficiency; there will be no need for further breakthroughs.
The singularity, as it is often called.
So what does the future look like?
Innovation and development continue to accelerate. More and more things will be built, created, constructed, improved, and discovered.
The singularity is therefore inevitable: it is lurking somewhere in the potential of the world, hiding within possible things that humans might create, patient yet hungry, just waiting to be realized.
But there are certainly many possible singularities. For example, it may be that current AI and tech dominance will continue to advance and optimize, as corporations grow larger and hungrier, advertisements become longer and more frequent, ideological dogma gets stronger and bloodier.
In this world, humanity will be left in the dust, carrying out the will of the intricate nonhuman systems that exploit humanity.
But there can always be another breakthrough. This is the singularity: this is the Project.
The Project is the human singularity, a shattering of the current structures of the modern world in order to realign the direction of development to one which sanctifies the human soul.
It's not that old technologies will be destroyed.
But the Project will render many parts of the modern world obsolete: like a horse-drawn carriage in an era of highways.
The Project cannot know what the future will look like. But the Project is not so much predicting the future as it is creating it.
Perhaps humanity could thrive without the Project; the Project is just a tool, something new, and the Project itself is not human. The Project can only accomplish as much as humanity decides to embrace it.
But tools are often the only practical path to a breakthrough: it's hard to imagine cars being invented before roads.
It's up to humanity to use the Project to change the world. It's up to you.
The revolution begins with you.
Do not be left in the dust.