Change and the ability to keep up

Everyone agrees the world is changing at a blinding pace. The internet has been a massive accelerator. Knowledge and information are whizzing by us at speeds unprecedented in all of human history. When and at what pace will the ability of the human to keep up mentally and emotionally. No one has that answer yet.

I believe there will be some movement to return to a simpler and slower time. Maybe there will be a renewed interest in becoming like the Amish. I think that is quite possible. People may desire to move to third world countries or trade places with those folks.

For those brave souls who remain in the rat race, narrow focusing will be a way to cope. The disadvantage, of course, will be a limited perspective. Narrowing one's focus can lead to tribalism and confirmation bias. In an age of specialists who are an inch wide and a mile deep, there is the genuine danger of tunnel vision thinking. There is no room for thinking outside the box because you can't conceive of anything outside of that box.

The third option is collaborative mastermind groups. Collaborative communities would be a synchronization of many diverse occupations and skillsets that seek to become a group thinktank that can ward off the effects of each individual's narrow and limited scope of knowledge.

Beginning with my original unquestioned premise about the rapid increase in information what other scenarios are possible. Artificial intelligence to support and supplement our brainpower, maybe? The AI-human connection would be the stuff science fiction writers have warned us about for decades. Science fiction's prophecies about man-machines evolving into half human half robot beings may become a frightening possibility.

There may be other ways of slowing down the information tsunami. I think more filtering of the flow and mechanisms to digest information at a slower pace would be an option. But, that would require a filter with a capacity to have critical thinking skills programmed into it.

As we speak, we see a world divided. Even a country very divided as never before. Sure we had divisions back in our past, but they were usually over a few, although very important issues and problems. Now we are fundamentally and irrevocably divided. Scott Adams puts it this way people are watching two different movie screens.

The social media interconnectedness did not solve the problem; it exacerbated it. We gather into tribes and reinforce our cognitive bias.'  The more the people reinforce, our views are the ones we want to agree with. If you disagree, we find ways to cast you out of our circle of trust and can dismiss your viewpoint.

Division and distrust are a symptom of too much information too fast. It is at present too voluminous and rapid to mentally digest and discern with any sufficient preciseness.

At any rate, I am suggesting in the meantime for all you people in business who can't keep up; hire Your Office SOS as your Virtual Assistants. As we say, "Before you drown in a sea of stress, call Your Office SOS."