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While @july has never felt more optimistic about the future, I'm slowly veering in the opposite direction.

A few people asked why, so I wrote this short essay.

After years of working with century long time horizons, I'm noticing a shift in my optimism. I believe it partly stems from a paradox around unprecedented global connectivity alongside deepening fragmentation. 

It makes me wonder if our technological ingenuity can truly outpace our collective dysfunction when planetary challenges demand wisdom.

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While @july has never felt more optimistic about the future, I'm slowly veering in the opposite direction.

A few people asked why, so I wrote this short essay.

After years of working with century long time horizons, I'm noticing a shift in my optimism. I believe it partly stems from a paradox around unprecedented global connectivity alongside deepening fragmentation. 

It makes me wonder if our technological ingenuity can truly outpace our collective dysfunction when planetary challenges demand wisdom.

https://cyrusclarke.substack.com/p/why-an-optimist-is-slowly-veering

Researcher at MIT Media Lab | Creating futures | https://cyrus.website/info

Was thinking how I work best under pressure and sometimes things need to get really bad before I come up with a solution. It's in those fly-or-die moments when my “superpower” 
	comes out. 
That desperate cry for help is what trigger that profound, almost instinctive wisdom in me. 

Wisdom is what you are, or what you become. Oppose to knowledge which is what you learn.   Hopefully, when shit hit the fan in  the future,  when we all need to come together, I hope we become better.