What we Really Want

We have to go by what we do, to determine what we really want, and pay little attention to what we say we want.

I'm sure we can all agree on that.

All we have to do is agree on what we are doing. Which seems impossible.

We are not equipped with reality detectors but are storytellers instead, and love a good story.

I spent 20 years of my life (1980-2000) being part of the biggest story ever invented. We called it the Computer and believed it would produce Heaven on Earth. What it produced instead, we have no words for, but it was not Heaven.

We still have the Computer, and it is more powerful than ever. But it has not made us better.

We should be paying close attention to our new situation and the desperate situation we are in. But part of our situation is our lack of social awareness.

Perhaps this blindness was caused because these changes happened gradually, over half a century. And because in some ways, we are better off.  We now have the Internet and Cellular networks. And the SmartPhone that we can hold in our hands, and the Cloud. These have given us incredible new capabilities. that we never dreamed of before.

But they have not changed us.