Fundamental human activities as a universal driver for the economy

You must be thinking - what am I smoking? Creation and consumption makes sense being part of an economy. But curation is nothing more than glorified mouse-clicking. I know this well enough, being a part-time DJ. Why am I getting paid to play my favourite music to strangers in clubs? Just a music curator. A glorified tracklist manager.

Now if you look at manufacturing plants like Foxconn with its thousands of production operators lined up, you'll quickly see that it could all be automated in the future. Go up one-floor above the assembly-line and you'll see a CEO seated on his cushy chair, flicking his wrist all day signing-papers. Basically a glorified curator too.

There must be a reason that the market demands curation work. It's the point of execution. It's goal-oriented decision-making process based on information and perspective.

Other than outsourcing our memories and decision making, make no mistake that everything that can be automated, will be automated. However, processes that cannot be automated will become extremely valuable - like our attention, our consciousness.

Personally, I foresee that this shift in economic value will become more evident as the days go by, with automation building itself up Maslow's hierarchy from the bottom. During this ascension, we will progressively find more time and connectivity to attend to matters that are intrinsically valuable to us.

It's just a force of nature.

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The times, they are a-changing

Bob Dylan's classic is perhaps one of the most relevant works of art ever made when it comes to understanding the high-impact events that are about to come. Just check out his lyrics. The only certainty is uncertainty. With that knowledge and admission, the best that we can do is to start steering the conversation. Take part in emerging social platforms that are made to ride out the wave.

Start experiencing and operating in these new game-changing networks. Early beta-testers will to be highly rewarded for spending time in unexplored frontiers. But don't quite your job yet as we're still in the early stages. Use these new social technologies as an augmentation, not a full replacement.

The spirit of the times also comes with the dissipation of old world concepts such as nations, criminalisation, and intellectual property. The ending of such states should spell the end of cost-intensive, redundant operations as we inch closer to a more humane future. While I'm still not done with the piece about the end of nations, you may check out the following:-

• The End of Criminalization: On Free Will, Accountability, and Compassion
• The End of Intellectual Property: On Imagination, Artificial Intelligence, and Procedural Generation
• Surfing the Singularity with Steemit

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What if your only real job is to be human?

Humanity is slowly merging with its own virtual concepts, conceived since the beginning of mankind. Steemit is the first real sign of such progress. The technology itself is a bit of everything in one: currency, experience, creation, curation, and consumption (optimistically, consumption is how we learn and self-develop).

In the future, we will be less shackled by routines, contracts, and specialisations. In fact, part of the future is already here. Contribute whatever you want on Steemit. You're experiencing humanity's very first training wheels geared to embracing the future of work. It's creation and curation - entirely digitised, materialised, democratised, and it will be up to anybody's will to shape in their own ways, learning along the way.

That said, it should also be recognised that articifical intelligence (AI) has its own counter-culture. It is something called intelligence amplification (IA). Again, Steemit seems to be a counterbalance to the existence of Big Data algorithms that are driving a huge portion of the Internet.

The future of work is humanity itself. It is one of autonomy, mastery, and purpose.

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A blueprint for the future of work

Please note that the coming age of automation and the future of work does not mean the end of humanly-activities that revolve around the base of Maslow's hierarchy. People will still have the choice to grow their own food and find their own partners. It's just that we're now enabled by the emergence of useful social technologies. After all, every human activities can essentially boil down to social exchanges.

To take full advantage of this upcoming paradigm, you may check out my actionable shortpost here: A Simple Guide for Personal Development and Blockchain Empowerment.

On the collective level, below are some of the visuals that I've repeatedly used in some of my older posts. I've presented these slides ever since before Steemit came into existence, and to my surprise, I think that they're becoming even more relevant these days. You may notice that the organisational structure below is pretty much like Steemit's / Curie's evolution taking shape in decentralizing / dissolving itself.

Welcome to the age of abundance

Well it's not completely realised, not yet. The point that I like to point out in this new era is that it's not a cold, calculating Darwinian future, where "underperformers" are left in the dust. Remember that energy is soon to be fully renewable and plentiful, while humanity is still limited by its relatively slow biological growth. There will be plenty of energy / currency to go around in the future.

As a side note, the best kinds of technologies are invisible. All these would be for nothing substantial if we are spending too much time interacting with the technology itself. Going forward, I think something like Steem will be more ubiquitous, silent, and more of a thing that runs in the background - just like Ethereum and all aspiring blockchains should be. (if that makes any sense)

Before ending this post, I would like to point out again that everything that has been presented in this post is not in anyway, an expert opinion. Instead, I'm here to encourage everybody to take the time to understand the materials presented and use it for their own personal development.

As always, thanks for reading!

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_{Disclaimer: This write-up is an extreme projection of our future and should not be taken as financial / lifestyle advice of any sort. Here's my first abstract on the future of work. Source of some of the visual accompaniments: http://www.futuristgerd.com/}

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