The question "What is happiness?" changed from "What cool things can I do?" to "What cool things can I share?" And today, I'm talking to a friend about how to point kids in good directions when everything is changing around them.
It also teaches one rather directly that leadership is by example, not empty words. "Kids learn what they live" [0] and that inspires one (namely me) to be a better person.
I just noticed that the article is by Kevin Kelley.
Kevin's ideas on "What Technology Wants" [1] resonated strongly with me, and I have tried to convey how technology can empower people rather than exploit them, when one makes the right choices.
Making the right choices benefits only oneself, but lights the way for kids (and others who will listen)
Here is the summary, and one to keep in mind whenever technologizing.
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So, looking at the evolution of life and the long-term histories of past technologies, what are the long-term trajectories of the technium? What does technology want?
• Possibilities
To increase diversity
To maximize freedom/choices
To expand the space of the possible
• Efficiencies
To increase specialization/uniqueness
To increase power density
To increase density of meaning
To engage all matter and energy
To reach ubiquity and free-ness
To become beautiful
• Complexity
To increase complexity
To increase social co-dependency
To increase self-referential nature
To align with nature
• Evolvability
To accelerate evolvability
To play the infinite game [2]
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Having kids is Playing the Infinite Game.
[0] https://www.rootsofaction.com/children-learn-what-they-live-...
[1] https://kk.org/thetechnium/open-source-dna/
[2] Finite and Infinite Games, by James Carse