Where Will You Be in 2046?
In the year 2046, there will be no more doctors. There will be no more lawyers. There will be no more teachers. Anything that can be done by robots will be done by robots. Where will that leave the rest of us? Fighting for the leftover scraps?
Most of the people I talk to are concerned but not worried. We know in our hearts we will somehow survive, but how? The way we always have. By tapping into our divine spark, our inventive nature, the part of us that can never be replicated by a machine.
When I was eleven years old, I had a wise Hebrew School teacher named Mrs. Merino. She taught me that we can’t make something out of nothing, like God can. We try to recreate the apple, and we end up inventing a vitamin pill. Nothing wrong with a vitamin pill, but it’s certainly no apple. We wish to create life itself, and what do we get? A robot. A robot is a remarkable invention that will make our lives easier in unfathomable ways. But it’s no human.
We are imperfect beings. Inventors, not creators. There will always be a gap between what we can invent and what has already been created. We grow smarter and stronger as we evolve, but the process is much like going halfway between here and there. We never arrive at the destination, though we close the gap. Imperfection is what will save us from inventing ourselves out of existence.
I tell stories for a living. That’s my purpose for being here. I draw from the Bible, mythology, history, and pop culture. Some of my stories are true. Even the made up ones have truth in them.
What’s in it for you? Pure entertainment. Smiles and laughter. A room full of people thinking “something special just happened here.” I don’t 10x your revenue or reveal the secret to crushing your competition. I’m like having the band next door drop in before they get famous, when they already know they’re onto something. You’ve got superstars in your midst. Some are more obvious than others, but everyone’s got that spark. Let’s light it together and make the future even brighter than it’s already shaping up to be.
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What do I teach? Optimism. Because I’m an optimist until proven otherwise.