SCIENCE

Technology Will Never Be the Same. What? How? Right Now?

The shift from old-school physics and engineering to evolving mathematics and quantum physics is happening

Lately, I’ve been writing more and more about shifts in science. It is what I see happening in the world as part of my changemaker work. I really think we are still trying to find solutions using the same way of thinking with which we have caused the problems. And that is not smart.

I won’t put the famous Einstein quote here. I’ll put another.

“Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed”

— Albert Einstein

I know you are out there. Smart physicists, smart biologists, smart mathematicians, smart chemists. And you all have a little part of the key. I’m looking for you to give me your perspective.

Please, zoom out to get a fully wide perspective. See all the patterns. Then land again in your life, get back to the core of your body, your intuition. Connect some dots of your own deep expertise and tell me what you see.

Scientists, entrepreneurs, and young professionals; let’s all focus on the future with an open mind. The solutions for our vast world problems are out there. Let’s find many of them and make conscious business models in diversity so our children and grandchildren can breathe again.

I will tell you about what I see happening in the world so you can fill in some dots with me.

Please, zoom out to get a fully wide perspective, get back to the core, connect some dots of your own deep expertise, and tell me what you see

I’m an observer. I’m a changemaker. I’m a conceptual thinker. But I don’t have your depth in your fields to do your work for you.

So, let’s do this together.

What Do I See?

The past few years I’ve been writing a lot about what I already see happening. The regenerative business models that change the way we do business. The economic changes. Whole islands changing their economic course.

But what does it mean for technology? I see many business models embracing technology. But it’s still old school. Algorithms are still driving us further into already stuck patterns. Instead of alternating between the vast universe of possibilities and the smallest unique particle.

What do I mean? Let me try to explain it in a few ways, so you might find something to hold on to in your brain full of your specific images.

First, how does systemic thinking change everything into new patterns? We know that in the vast field of physical matter on the earth, small atoms group themselves in patterns. Chemistry knows it. Physics knows it. And all citizens know it too.

But on the smallest scale, every atom is unique. That’s the main message of quantum physics as Richard Feynman, an American physicist so clearly explains it in ways everybody can understand and learn to love physics. An atom can be a particle or a wave. Or just a possibility? And we only scratch the surface here.

But we must realize that patterns (large-scale groupings of atoms into matter) and the smallest particles, waves, or whatever they are at any certain moment, behave really differently.

Systemic Thinking in Practice

So, how can we apply all of this knowledge to our own lives? A crash course in systemic thinking. How do patterns become stuck? And how can we unstuck them?

1. Zoom out and see all the patterns that have been created in the past, your past, all of our pasts
2. Zoom in and land again in your own life. And realize that what you have just seen has changed a little in the smallest part of you. Your body, your cells. You just evolved (became a bit more wave) because of an experience you had out there in the big field of possibilities.

This is what quantum people mean when they say time is not linear. And space is the place where evolution happens. This is what 5D really means.

The first dimension is length, the second is height, the third is depth. The fourth dimension is time. And the fifth dimension is space-time. if you want to know about more dimensions in physics, here are all ten of them.

And now, I’ll give you a technology example that all of us writers know about. Artificial intelligence and machine learning for the creation of scripts. Let’s go from old-school thinking to evolutionary thinking.

Some people say we already have all the technologies we need. We just have to apply them. Well, I don’t agree. We got too stuck in the root of old school physics and mechanical engineering to make any groundbreaking progress.

Time is not linear. And space is where evolution happens.

Technology, Time and Space

Let me explain the shift from engineering mindset to quantum mindset in AI with an example and then, please, let me know what YOU see for our future of technology.

Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are combining what’s already there and producing new outcomes. At this moment, it’s becoming more and more popular for stories, scripts, and films. Many films are based on the hero’s journey by Joseph Campbell.

It’s a storytelling format in which the heroine or hero has a call to adventure, starts the journey, comes across some helpers and adversaries, and arrives at the abyss. Then she comes to her senses, sees there no turning back, changes her life, and walks with some helpers again to the end of the film. A transformed woman. A transformed man.

Nowadays, it’s easy to write a film script with AI. You feed the machine thousands of scripts and out it comes with a new take on things. A new product. A creative film.

Hmm… will it ever be a groundbreaking film, I wonder? (R)evolutionary film? Or will it just be more of the same? It will most probably have a male protagonist because that’s what most films have. And I’m sure the adversary is some mean-looking man or a very sexy woman luring the man to his abyss.

There won’t be many women talking to women about anything else than a man, I guess. No heroine’s journeys where we enjoy success, only to find it is a boon. And then learn about the intuitive way of being and integrate it all to become whole.

Because that’s rarely done in a film yet. And there won’t be many indigenous people portrayed as wise youngsters saving the world from ecosystem destruction and climate change like Kay Sara is doing. Those are the films I personally would want to see.

So, I think it’s an enormous loss if we keep going this way with AI. And it’s stupid, too. Because there’s a huge market out there, young people and many, many women, who are craving new film concepts. We are rather fed up with men just crashing cars or making war seem normal.

In an AI film, there won’t be many women talking to women about anything else than a man, I guess

Getting Unstuck

How can we do it differently? For me, the key is time. Until now, we only incorporated the past into our AI. We never look at futures. We create new things while we are still stuck in our past patterns. Whereas evolution always goes unstuck first before creating something new.

If I were a scriptwriter, I would look at existing patterns of films and combine that with the vast new possibility of patterns out there. Then I would go back to my core. My personal, unique intuition. And write with all the passion I have, a new narrative.

Can AI do that too? Maybe even better than me? More passionately? With more beautiful symbolism than I could have ever thought of? We need a lot of imagination to look into the future.

So, can AI produce imagination?

I’m really curious about your answer!

Conclusion

Physics, engineering, and technology as we know it is the old-school route we need to deviate from. They are still stuck in the big patterns of the past. So, let’s get unstuck and find new patterns somewhere in the vast field of possibilities.

I think some of the answers can be found in two big shifts happening at the moment:

• The shift from physics and engineering to mathematics (evolved mathematics, such as the Superformula and Gielis transformations)
• The shift from physics to quantum physics (particles, waves, and the observer)

Nature is the best scientist of all! But we just don’t understand her yet with our rational brains.

But more people nowadays are thinking the way I do. It’s what emergence does. Our planet is really intelligent and the shifts are always happening in more places at once at the same time. My eyes are open. My ears are sharp. My intuition is in full flow these days.

Please help me connect the dots of systemic thinking. And feel invited to share your perspective in the comments.

Want to connect? You can find me somewhere on our beautiful planet, with my hands in the soil and my eyes gazing at moonshots and quantum leaps. Or find me via Linktree. Thank you, Mike, for adding your wise energy to my words.

© Désirée Driesenaar