Innovation Addiction: The NEW drug of Choice

10/31/19 • 15 min

Addiction is an animal “thing”—it’s an unpleasant human disposition for some people. In fact, there are a few experts that make a point to say every person on this planet has some form of addition. It could be addicted to TV, sweets, news feeds, social media, gaming, gambling, alcohol, drugs, sex, money, food, traveling, work, another person, sports, ice cream, GOT, and the lists go on and on and on.

Innovation addiction is relatively new, but from the time the first Space Invaders consoles hit the college campuses, the fire of seduction was ignited. And, while addiction is often characterized as an individual issue or a demographic grouping, it can also be a corporate concern or an industry obsession. Beyond individuals, the demand for data, big data by current classifications, is all encompassing in a world coming to be dominated by artificial intelligence. As intelligence multipliers expand, so does the exponential volumes needed to train and feed these human created algorithms of hidden complexity and growing capabilities.

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Not Tonight Dear, My Innovation Wore Me Out

Our patronage supports those firms and innovations which satisfy our desires, and in some cases, outright lust, all the while giving us a feeling of belonging. We can point to examples of this across social media platforms, high-tech devices, games and VR, medical advancements, financial management, and home appliances to name but a few.

Whatever the rationale for rapidly incorporating innovation into our daily lives, our healthcare solutions, and of course, our high-tech automobiles, our adoption of innovations is creating culture divisions not just along generational lines, but also across economic ranges. With the rapid pace of innovation now touching into all aspects of artificial intelligence, society is increasingly shocked by the arrivals of daily advances. With those shocks, come fatigue as individuals struggle to keep up and incorporate changes into their personal, economic, political, and even religious identities.

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The Second Coming of the Renaissance of War

What happens when science and technology advance far enough to create fully autonomous, AI robots(i.e., human robots)? Will they be religious? Will they possess a soul? Will our utopian innovations have a place for humans in their world? What happens when we “join or bond” with our inventions?Will we create a new biologic species where our inventions dominate our lives?

The next three decades will usher in a golden age for autonomous, artificial intelligence. As the population peaks, the first wave of our intelligence multipliers will reach their zenith. As the world reaches 10 billion individuals and synthetic intelligence reaches a level of human consciousness, a fork will present itself—how will these “new, synthetic lives” be governed? Will these emerging, deep intelligence beings be part of existing societies, or will they split off, forming their own rules and structures? Do traditional humans fully believe that if they create hyper-accelerated intelligence, why will they listen to “reason” from lesser-intelligent “animals”? How will those innovators, scientists, and consumers defend their blind faith in creations that are no longer human influenced or controllable?