It's Time for a Renaissance
And Time to Set Down the Algorithm
It’s time for a renaissance. Society has chosen to use technology to divide us. Algorithms and monetization of them became profitable and scalable. We were sent to short bursts of content that fed us more content. And then even more content. Our phones notified us with distractions, pulling us away from the physical world and the people that matter to us most. Society’s curiosity for objective truth no longer mattered, rather, it was the flood of subjective truth flying across the digital spaces. But without objective truth, we are no longer anchored to the same thing.
It’s time for a renaissance, a new enlightenment that unifies our culture through art, literature and science. With the advent of artificial intelligence, we can find, consume, organize and evaluate large swaths of information in minutes.
Our ability to ask questions and develop answers and inventions in amazing speed will be happening sooner than thought. Microsoft’s breakthrough this past week will bring us quantum computing in years instead of decades. From Microsoft’s announcement:
Most of all, quantum computing could allow engineers, scientists, companies and others to simply design things right the first time – which would be transformative for everything from healthcare to product development. The power of quantum computing, combined with AI tools, would allow someone to describe what kind of new material or molecule they want to create in plain language and get an answer that works straightaway – no guesswork or years of trial and error.
Here’s a video from Microsoft on the announcement:
There is an opportunity to spend our time learning and doing amazing things. Technology will be at each of our fingertips to ask and answer profound questions. But we must be anchored to the same thing as we do so. What we should be anchored to is the truth. Anything else is subjective and will continue to divide us, no matter what technology we have at our disposal.
If there is no truth, each person meanders through the world, their truths colliding into one another. If a person is not bound to truth, they will bind themselves to something. Our nature is to have purpose and we will find it in something—a hobby, a movie, a cause, a political party or a person.
Our curiosity exists because each of us want to know our Creator. We can know the Creator by learning about the Universe. He created the stars and planets and mankind. God wants us to learn just as we want our own children to learn.
Set down the algorithm and walk away and enter a new technological age for humanity. How we use it and why we use it will determine if we’re heading for a renaissance or another dark age.
Peace.