I’m a Nashville-based writer, talent strategist, and certified executive coach. On this website, I share insights and actionable practices concerning mindfulness, learning agility, and storytelling: lifelong strengths that will help you love your career and enhance your quality of life.
Most of us are facing similar pain points: nonstop change, accelerating economic and technological disruption, and the collective “noise” that grows louder each day. The impact, for so many of us, has been confusion, distraction, and stress.
Five big, interrelated disruptors stand out amid the noise, from my perspective: Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Biotechnology, Climate Change and Industrial Complexes. Here’s some specifics on how these five disruptors interrelate:
Algorithms gather data about everyone and everything, from every imaginable, interconnected source, This data is the inorganic life force of AI, which is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems, and its operational use is multiplying across all industries and disciplines.
AI and its supporting algorithms are intersecting with Biotechnology, which is the manipulation of living organisms or their components to produce useful, usually commercial products–with an increasing focus on mimicking not just human behaviors but human thinking and emotions as the algorithms grow more proficient and sophisticated.
The interrelationships between algorithms, AI, and biotechnology can not only solve a plethora of problems for individual human beings, societies, and economies, but offer the potential for scientists, entrepreneurs, and politicians to become more astute and creative in ways to harness Climate Change...if enough of them can cooperate and collaborate and withstand the forces of nationalism that have gripped so much of the U.S. and Europe the last several years.
And finally, the potential worldwide benefits of algorithms, AI, biotechnology, and the harnessing of climate change, can be more fully realized if we take action to lessen the grip of systematic Industrial Complexes that widen income gaps, amplify inequities and injustices, and often contribute to accelerating climate change itself.
