Cognitive Thrift 70 – Range
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/05/22
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: It’s the same with Google Glass.
Rick Rosner: It’s the same, but that cell phone technology is so delicious and convenient to everybody that there was no stopping everyone from being drawn to it eventually, when they became cool enough, easy enough, to use. It will be the same thing with a lot of future technology that seems creepy to us now or seems like the same to humanity now.
Some of it will be so delicious, so intriguing, exciting, convenient that at adaption will become the norm. You’ll have a technical cultural evolution. We’re already in the middle or beginning of that. We’re already in that process.
We’re at the beginning because you don’t see a big division between colonies of tech rejecters and tech super adaptors, but as with natural evolution where over time you end up with a range organisms of varying complexity and varying life strategies.
You’ll see a spreading out of humanity into various groups based on how much and what tech they embrace, and increasingly the embracing of some tech will reflect life strategies. It will reflect a life strategy, which will often reflect a thought strategy.
In the arising of humanity, there is the rise of fairly consistent and competent thought, where we reached a level where we’re god at thinking about stuff. If you look at a dog, a dog is just confused by everything.
A dog knows what a dog knows, and is decent as dog stuff, but beyond that is hopeless. But with humanity, we reached the point where we can pretty much decode whatever part of the world we focus our attention on.
So, the payoff matrix to go back to that thing for divergent thought. The value in that box is changed now because we’re good at thinking. The payoff for divergence is such that it becomes a stable strategy, disruption becomes its own thing.
And we can look for that to continue into the future in ways that are both qualitatively and quantitatively different.
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