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Financial stress is at an all-time high.
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Americans are drowning in debt. Cost of
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living is extreme. Yet, we all have
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phones, internet, AI systems, and access
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to infinite media. And what I realize is
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that we're already living in this
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sci-fi. It's called cyberpunk. And its
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core premise is this: high-tech, low
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life. But what good's all this tech? And
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people are struggling. Now, don't get me
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wrong, it's better than high life, low
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tech. That would be like medieval
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royalty. You had the castle, the power
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of the servants. But if you didn't die
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at childbirth, you probably would have
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tuberculosis in your 20s. You smelled
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like No electricity, no real
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understanding of anything. and you were
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just a well-dressed animal in a fancy
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cage. So, in theory, advancements in
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technology should increase quality of
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life. And for a long time, it did.
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Electricity, vaccines, clean water, GPS,
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computers. Then, in the last 20 years,
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we stopped using the tech and the tech
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started using us. We all know that
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story. We're living it. I don't want to
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obsess over the problem. I'd rather
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focus on the possibility. How do we get
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to high techch, high life, which is the
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technoptimist version of utopia? A
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future where technology doesn't just
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make life longer, but it makes life
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worth living. Future which I believe is
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possible. Well, this is where it gets
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uncomfortable. It starts with you. Use
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your phone to learn, not to numb. Use
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the internet to build, not just scroll.
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Use AI as a mirror, not a mask. Create
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with purpose. Take responsibility. If
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you're watching this, it means you have
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a smartphone and an internet connection.
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Abundance our ancestors could only dream
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of. Tech can set us free. We're all
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capable of high-tech, high life. But we
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got to take back the damn wheel.
