image: Natl Human Genome Research Inst.
The message about a coming revolution of man’s digitalization is amplified by people like Google’s Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering, Elon Musk of Neuralink and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. The corporate imperative is to hire potential disciples - workers who will, through psychological and neurological evaluation, demonstrate their probable capacity to envision the future over competing candidates. Combinations of engineer, entrepreneur, philosopher, psychologist, activist, gamer and social media influencer are good starters. A recent tension pulling at Human Resource officers is concerning their demand to fill the pipeline with young disciples to be culturally indoctrinated while synchronizing with marketing. New employees must understand the right future they will be required to build. Business culture demands future insights from the engineer-to-influencer continuum and this is believed to be biological inheritance with no particular justification for Darwinism.
One body organ, the brain, which operates within the central nervous system – is being called upon to supply intelligence, performance, success, cultural adaptability and to validate marketing stories about the future world when digital technologies control human behaviors.
Our nervous system, as a grand and miraculous biological structure; viewed as the model of intelligence in the hands of technology firms, is inspiring their creating a super structure I call the Prophetic Backbone.
Robert P. Waters 2018