WE CAN’T CONTROL WHAT WE CREATE
Do you sense a ticking clock, an appointment with destiny, a reckoning due, a point of no return somewhere just ahead? The signs are everywhere: hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, mass extinction of species, the Amazon on fire, Mark Zuckerberg, microplastics, surveillance cams, 5G, SIM swapping, school shootings, e-cigarettes, Donald Trump, spotted lantern flies, 737s, disinformation bots, Kardashians, quantum computing, and, any minute, AIs vastly smarter than us - not to mention daily threats to our self-esteem, unity, science, civil discourse, decision-making, democracy, and truth itself. A pal of mine defines the root problem: “We don’t live long enough to see the consequences of our actions.” Unintended consequences, accumulating for millennia, now threaten to destroy everything we know and love.