What are the Next Innovations of Humanity?

How to Design the Undesignable

Humanity has been facing an exponential speed of innovation in all sorts of fields, regardless, we have been unable to overcome the main problems of humanity, and actually, we are making society extremely volatile, which might lead to unprecedented chaos.

The sort of innovations that have been happening are associated with the augmentation of our lives:

These are great innovations that have been improving our lives, however, the systems we have created are increasingly extremely fragile, and highly dependent on each other, especially taking into consideration the increasing amount of people existing, and the way we expect to have better and better conditions. This leads to extreme fragility towards small yet magnificent events, where the whole system collapses. Covid-19 would hardly be a world pandemic without excessive flight connections.

The unpredictable is becoming increasingly more predictable, and also smaller events are increasingly more impactful. This is because humans have been not paying attention to fragility, and systems are becoming increasingly more fragile. Currently, we fundamentally rely on the internet for everything. A lot of Covids, Russian wars, and monkeypoxes are coming at an ascending rate.

In human society, if you kill a big player the entire system collapses. If for example, Bank of America collapses, all other society subsequentially collapses.

While, if Apple or Google dies, you will suffer, boy. Nature creates several layers of over-insurance. Nature does it in 2 ways:

The current main problems of humanity are fragile systems. This can be translated on a deeper level into the following:

As seen above, human systems do not take responsibility into account. Wealth is absolutely not even counted in most countries (but rather GDP). Journalists do not take responsibility for people's process of information. Teachers do not take responsibility for how students actually behave using the teachings.

A good system is one in which players take care of their actions, because being affected by your own actions, makes you suffer from their scratches of them.

Human institutions tend to focus on the exact opposite. The bigger the system, the human creates more bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is merely a construction in which a person is separated from their own actions.

The most bureaucratic, the worst.

Taking into consideration the nature examples, humans should distribute as much self-sufficiency as possible. Nature exists for such a long time that we should try to cope if we do not understand what nature currently does, it probably makes sense on a deeper level. Just model mother nature.

In substitution phasis, the goal is to build robust systems that do not suffer from big impactful players, where everyone has a decent share of the whole.

Of course, it’s always impossible to know what sort of innovations will exist, but we can try to suggest, such as:

And so forth.

These problems identified are structural defects of the system. And structural problems cannot be cured. The system corrects itself by collapsing.

Some events will just trigger the collapse. The key here is to be the least impacted as possible.

Everything. Designers are the creators of value in humanity. No one creates as much value as we do currently.

In every single thing we do, we should think: “hey, how can I make society more robust?”, “Hey, how can I make sure that wealth will be equality distributed?”.

A designer must be ethical and think big. Creating things with substance. Not only making things pretty but making pretty robust things for the long term. As a designer focus on 2 things:

The next innovations of humanity will be deep innovations. Not cute augmentations. Prepare yourself, babe.

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