Vision of the Future

All of our work comes down to this: our vision of the future. From our vision of our future, we work backwards to create the software and develop the processes that get us to that future.

Our Estimate of the Future

  1. Accessibility will trend upwards in everything and will become a major trend.

  2. Inequalities and bias will trend upwards with accessibility. These inequalities need to be solved before humanity can fully reach its potential.

  3. Resources will be drained faster than they can be replaced. They will need to be simulated or produced on a massive scale.

  4. As information becomes more accessible, it becomes incredibly important to develop systems of trust and transparency. To fully help people, we need them to trust us and believe that we are doing things for their own good.

  5. There's going to be a large shift away from the individual and focus on the community as a whole.

  6. Technology is going to be an undeniable and unavoidable part of humanity. It needs to be regulated and put within restraints, and understood instead of feared. We need to develop trust within technology, and to build it in as a first resort for problem fixes.

  7. Capitalism rewards the cheapest labor. Automation will replace humans to a significant degree. The lives of humans will become focused on communities and quality of life. Humans will focus on the things that differentiate them from machines: emotions, experiences, relationships, and growth. To focus on those, humans need to have a baseline needs met.

  8. We will become a multi-planetary species. But before we leave Earth, we need to solve the issues we have here.

Baseline needs

To become fully equal, everyone needs to have equitable access to:

  1. Water

  2. Food

  3. Comprehensive Education

  4. Safety

  5. Housing

  6. Health

  7. Opportunities for life advancement

Our Vision of the Future

Our vision of the future is our ideal world. This is the future we want to create and develop over time through our products, based on our estimate of the future.

Our vision is

  1. Reform and justice need to be rehabilitative and supportive, as opposed to punishments and fear.

  2. We develop systems of trust and transparency with all major institutions, and level the playing field between public servants and the people they serve. People will have the tools and ability to make changes and enable accountability.

  3. Education will be comprehensive, and updated regularly. Education will also span beyond the current offerings, and becomes more focused on the humanities, art, and music. It will also move beyond the current format and medium of physical brick and mortar school. Education also needs to cover life beyond school, and applicable life subjects as much as they cover other subjects. Overall, education needs to prepare you for life as much as it prepares you for a job.

  4. Humans will live to do more than just work. Capitalism will automate a large amount of tasks available today, and opening up humans to focus on what differentiates them from machines. But before they do so, they must have their baseline needs meet, permanently and unconditionally.

  5. Finite resources must become sustainably mass produced or simulated, and we will become proactive in responding to and treating environmental and infrastructure related issues. Sustainability and proactivity will not become a trend, but a necessity for continuing to live on the planet.

  6. Technology is going to be an undeniable and unavoidable part of humanity. It needs to be comprehensively understood and regulated. There needs to be a mass shift in how we think about technology, and how we utilize it. Responsibility and transparency will become necessary for the tech companies who create the products of our future. Tech companies will become responsible for the consequences and actions their products create, and must take a proactive response to undertaking that responsibility.

  7. Our capabilities in healthcare will improve, and along with it will come further lengthening lifespans and a greater need for long term thinking and long term planning for the future of humanity, its survival, and its growth.

  8. Mental health is expected to improve for everyone in the next 20 years. We are on the brink of understanding and unlocking the capabilities of the human brain. Along with this understanding will come an acceptance of the brain as another organ, and the de-stigmatization of mental health and therapy. Society as a whole will accept the need for mental wellbeing just as much as we have accepted physical wellbeing.

  9. Humankind will have an ever increasing abundance of free time, as the burden of work continues to shift towards automated systems, such as robots and artificial intelligences. This is in keeping with the trends that have been happening over the last 200 years, however, we will see an acceleration in our capabilities to automate high-skill work, due to the cost, economics, and usefulness of AI.

The areas we want to work in

  • Short-term mental health crises

  • Long term mental health services

  • Personal safety of marginalized communities

  • Climate Change

  • Fundraising for non-profits

  • Protesting and organizing / government accountability

  • Ethical tech & deployment of AI

  • Lack of resources and infrastructure to support people in organizations, education, and employees

  • Misusing products to hurt abuse victims

  • Poverty

  • Resources to humanitarian disaster areas

  • Financial Literacy + Income Inequality

  • Housing

  • Elder and End Of Life Care

  • Criminal Justice

  • Autonomous Car Safety and Unity

  • Kessler Syndrome / Space Junk

  • Sustainable / Green Architecture

  • Food waste / insecurity

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