Doing more of the same

The belief that ever-advancing technology will heal the increasing illness in the world is flawed. It becomes clear how much is already going wrong: issues that have emerged from technological interventions, problems exacerbated by those same technologies, and longstanding dysfunctions that have simply been normalised as our baseline health. That is a massive amount of wide spread and deeply rooted illness.

It is silly to think that continuing down this path—creating yet another pill, injecting nanobots into our veins, or leaning further into technological solutions—will somehow lead us toward genuine health.

The vast majority of what exists today—including ourselves—was not created through human intention or effort. We have influenced and altered the course of life on Earth dramatically, but we are newcomers in the grand timeline of this planet.

Anyone who has worked with technology knows how quickly things become complex. Yet even the most intricate systems we design are trivial compared to the unfathomable complexity of a single living organism, let alone the interconnected web of ecosystems across an entire planet. The stability and evolution of that diversity is a miracle of balance and interdependence.

If we truly seek health—on a personal and planetary scale—would it make sense to turn to turn away from the current technological path? What if, for the first time in history we could not only consciously recognize the natural force that was already before us. But to collaborate with it, amplify it. We have tremendous power, just look at how we transformed the world. What if all that transformative power could be directed and aligned with the very force that made life on Earth happen in the first place.