I Have a Dream...

I may be dissatisfied, but I have a dream. It goes something like this. I dream that efficiency will replace waste; that people will embrace humanist values that lead us away from individualism and towards cooperativism; that we can achieve sustainability and decrease consumerism while innovating solutions for many aspects of our lives; that work can be diminished for many with robotics and automation; that privacy threatens the openness necessary for progress; and without ambitious goals we can't achieve our potential.

While this is a large scale dream, it is scalable. In explaining a down-sized version to a friend in marketing, I was astounded by her reaction to my ideas. "Impossible" she said. Well, like many other achievements we thought would never be, it is only impossible until one day it is done. The great thing about dreams is that they cannot be taken away or destroyed. I'm dissatisfied, but I have a dream.